My brother needed a liver transplant but didn’t have health insurance. My advocacy is what got him on the donor list.

My brother was diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis — a liver disease — resulting from the autoimmune condition ulcerative colitis in 2016. The condition is incurable and progresses to liver failure without a liver transplant. Fortunately, he was transplanted on July 8, 2018, and has been doing well ever since.

However, the process of getting him a transplant was a challenge, and quite eye-opening. I thought I’d watched enough medical dramas to give me a basic understanding — but, of course, it’s nowhere as simple in real life as it appears on television. Read the full story in Insider.