A woman who thought she was pregnant when her stomach swelled to three times its usual size was horrified to learn that she actually had a rare form of hepatitis – and urgently needed a liver transplant.
When 27-year-old Kathryn Murphy suddenly went from size 10 to 16 in December last year, she took two pregnancy tests , suspicious she might be expecting.
When they all came back negative, the bank worker went to her GP.
There, she was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis, the cause of which is unknown.
In addition to this Kathryn, of Shotts in Scotland, also had cirrhosis of the liver - scarring of the organ caused by the hepatitis.
Critically ill, she started to vomit blood and on December 30, was placed in an induced coma at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Meanwhile, her stricken parents Elizabeth McCready, 57, and step-dad Jim McCready, 64, were warned that, unless she got a transplant she had just hours to live.
Thankfully, she pulled through and was given a life-saving liver transplant from an anonymous donor just a few weeks after falling ill.
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