Product Description Describes a family's struggle to keep the patient well enough to qualify for transplantation while her medical condition worsened daily.Ideal for readers involved with a lengthy course of treatment, whether transplant or another disease or disorder."More than 65 million people, 29% of the US population, provide care for a chronically ill, disabled or aged family member or friend during any given year". [Caregiving in the United States; National Alliance for Caregiving in collaboration with AARP; November 2009]. From the Author This is a story about my sister-in-law, Karen (not her real name). She had been handling her Hepatitis C and liver disease with great care for many years. But the nature of the illness and its side effects suddenly made her unable to live alone. Her sister Penny moved in with her. Karen and I had only spent a few weekends together at the time of her diagnosis. Time went on and her condition worsened. As I became more interested and emotionally involved with Karen's liver transplant process, I began to keep records of whom she and her sister talked to and what was happening to Karen medically.. Those journals served me well as a starting place for what was to become this book.But how does someone get Hepatitis and end up with life-threatening liver disease? Karen's story - about an accomplished wife, mother, and financial planner - who had many medical issues to face in her lifetime, and who, over time, needed a group of committed caregivers, is explored in"Default Caregivers - an organ transplant journey". From the Inside Flap "Default Caregivers" explores both a patient's need for a liver transplant and her family's struggle with providing caregivers for her throughout that process. From the Back Cover "We had learned to take each crisis as it came, and if we didn't know what we were dealing with, we didn't borrow trouble prematurely."