我給陌生人捐獻肝臟

I saw this post on Facebook， and somebody needed urgently liver transplant， and I dont even know that somebody. But somehow I felt a prompt in my heart， that I needed to respond to this call for donation. I think its not easy for the family， especially when somebodys declared that he has only seven days left. So there was this prompting， this heavy burden on me that I needed to respond， even though it was a stranger.

When I went for the briefing thing by the surgeons， they told me about the risk that I had to take out 70% of my liver， my gall bladder， so post-ops I would somehow put on weight because gall bladder is removed. And then theres 1% mortality rate. It was 1% of hundred will die on operating table. There are also side effects to the medication. Some people become bald and then some people will have diabetes and have that pleasure. I had to bring my mom down，cause I needed the next of kin to have consent to this. Mom was OK. She knows that since I was young I wanted to help someone. I told her， when I was very young， if I died， donate all my organs， and， yeah， so she knows that， yeah， I have to do this. So I got the full support from my mom.

There wasnt any fear， because I…OK 1% is not very high， and to me， I needed to do what was more important to save a life， not be so concerned about the side effects and the mortality rate.

The operation was on Friday itself. Mine was about nine hours. They had to open me up， take my liver， and then， while Im being stitched back， had to operate on Mr. Toh， so was side by side. The whole operation lasted about 20 hours.

Since secondary school days my foreign teacher， Miss Yup， shes very active in volunteer work， so she will bring us to childrens home， to old folks home. Thats where I learn about helping others. I know I cannot help a lot， I cannot help the entire world， if I can just help one， make a difference in one， to me thats enough. A lot of people think I had a good job in police force， why did I leave to become a social worker， become volunteer. I think the priorities are different in my life， so its not about getting cash and cars and everything. I think its beyond that as a purpose in all our lives.

我在臉譜網上看到這個帖子，說有人急需肝移植，而我甚至都不認識這個人。但出于某種原因，我的心被觸動了一下，我覺得我必須回應這個捐肝的請求。我覺得這事兒對這個家庭來說肯定很艱難，特別是家里有人被宣布只能活七天了。所以盡管這完全是一個陌生人，我還是覺得心里動了一下，覺得很沉重，必須要回應。

我去聽外科醫生介紹情況的時候，他們告訴我把70%的肝臟切除和切除膽囊的風險，所以術后因為沒有了膽囊，我可能會胖起來;手術的死亡率是1%，我有1%的機會會死在手術臺上;另外，我服用的藥物也會有副作用，有些人會因此變禿頂，有些會有患上糖尿病的“美好體驗”。我還要把我媽媽帶過來，因為我需要有直系親屬的同意才能手術。我媽媽對此沒有意見，因為她知道我從小就想幫助別人。我在年輕的時候曾經跟她說過，如果我死了，就把我所有的器官都捐獻出去。所以她明白我一定會走這一步。她全力支持我。

我并不覺得害怕，因為我……1%的風險并不是很高，對我來說，更重要的是拯救生命，而不是為手術的副作用和死亡率過分擔心。

手術是在星期五進行的，我的手術長達大概九個小時。他們要給我開膛，取我的肝臟進行手術，然后在幫我縫合的時候，他們同時要給陶先生做手術，當時我倆的手術臺是并排的，整個手術大概持續了二十個小時。

在我上中學的時候，當時教外語的葉老師對做志愿者工作很積極，她會帶我們到兒童福利院、老人院。我正是從她那里學會幫助別人的。我明白我不可能幫助很多人，不可能幫助全世界的人，即使我只能給一個人以幫助，讓一個人的生活發生變化，對我來說已經足夠了。許多人覺得我原來當警察，有一份好工作，為什么要離開去當一名社工，當志愿者呢。我覺得生活中我最看重的事情與別人不一樣，就是與賺錢、買車和其他東西沒有關系。我覺得我們人生的意義超越了這些。