Posted on 12/25/2001 4:04:30 PM PST by bayourod
PITTSBURGH -- AIDS activist, author and playwright Larry Kramer underwent liver transplant surgery and was listed in serious condition Monday.
Kramer's doctors said his condition was improving and was about where it should be after the 12-hour surgery Friday.
Kramer, 66, spent seven months on the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's waiting list. He moved to Pittsburgh in early November to wait for an organ to become available. While many transplant centers oppose the surgery for HIV-positive patients, UPMC's Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute has performed 10 liver transplants on HIV-positive patients since 1997. Eight of the patients have survived. Kramer's HIV has been relatively well controlled, but he suffered from end-stage liver failure caused by hepatitis B.
I'm alive and well, if too busy to suit my taste right now.
I try to check FR every day for news, but I haven't had those long stretches of free time that I was blessed with late last year and early this year. Every time I think I've got a handle on things, something unravels or pops up unexpectedly.
I've scaled back what I intend to accomplish this year. If I can get ahead of it this summer I'll not be such a stranger.
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