ST. CLOUD TIMES — Bel Kambach’s dying liver had maybe seven days left by the time she received a transplant last summer.
She read that assessment in her medical records a month after surgery, but Kambach knew her liver was essentially dead by July 1, 2018.
She was dying too.
Her transplant took place three weeks later at the Mayo Clinic campus in Scottsdale, Arizona.
“I had already given up that I would make it on time,” Kambach said Tuesday in her St. Cloud home. “I just didn’t believe it anymore.”
As Kambach approaches the year anniversary of her transplant, she talked with the St. Cloud Times about her feelings of bittersweet gratitude.
