In 2017, my family was devastated upon learning that my husband had end-stage non-alcoholic liver disease that had turned to liver failure and liver cancer. His only chance of survival: a liver transplant. For the next few months, all my dreams revolved around a new liver for my husband. Throughout these months, I spent countless …
In November of 2017, I became a living liver donor to my husband. At the time, he was battling liver failure and liver cancer stemming from non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Concerns about his liver began when he was only five years old. As the years passed, NASH turned fat in his liver to scar. As his …
In 2015, Thorn CEO Julie Cordua received a call from two Department of Homeland Security officials. They needed help developing a technology solution to find a little girl whose sexual abuse videos had been dispersed across the globe. The Department of Homeland Security had been looking for this little girl over 8 months to no …
My husband battled cancer last year. When he was diagnosed, I was told he had a week to live by the doctors. And by my church family, I was told to “have faith.” If I just had enough faith, many said, it would all be okay (no pressure!). For the first time in my life, …