[wagglebee]

At the risk of sounding callous, I think it is a horrible idea to give this girl a new liver. All she's going to do is destroy the new one in a few years.

[FormerACLUmember]

Not to worry. The chances that the National Health Service will competently treat this young woman are nil.

[rickmichaels]

...and comes from a stable family background.

What kind of family would let their daughter get hammered out of her skull at 12 years old and let it continue regularly for another eight years?

[Stringfellow Hawke]

Survival of the fittest, 'and smartest' I would add.

[Hildy]

It says she stopped drinking at the age of 17. I can't think of a better person to give it to. It's very rare for someone's liver to get so diseased so young. I'm against giving it to men in their 60's and 70's who have lived their lives and made their choices for many years. Man, you're tough.

[drt1]

"She is not the sort of person you would think something like this is happening to - she's an ambitious young woman who has a good career and comes from a stable family background.

Yeah, right. What kind of career can be good when you're hammered all day - Bartender maybe? As far as the stable family life thing, it's more likely they meant oblivious family life. I agree it sounds like a waste of a perfectly good liver to me. /callous

[RetNav96]

Me thinks Brit society may be better served if a donor liver can not be found before this blood line disappears.

[Imaverygooddriver]

Just curious, did Ted Kennedy ever have a liver transplant? I`m serious. It`s just I can`t see how a girl drinking for 5 years needs a liver transplant when a guy whose been drinking gallons of whisley, or whatever gasoline he drinks, every minute of every day for 60 odd years can still have anything even resembling a liver. You look at the guys face, it`s always beet red and his gut is out to the moon. He has all the traits of severe alcoholism, the edema in the gut, the red face, the psychotic ramblings, yet I can`t seem to ever remember Teddy ever needing a new liver. What is it, Irish genetics or something? I mean really, how in the name of Jim Beam can that guy still have his own liver?

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

DRUNKARD DAVID CROSBY HAS A DAUGHTER? This is congenital, heriditary, this isn't her fault.


/sarcasm off

[printhead]

she can have mickey mantles'.

[Dustbunny]

I don't know why but I could care less about her needing a liver.

[Dan from Michigan]

Cirrhosis after 8 years? I didn't think that was possible.

I'm shocked she didn't do a "Bon Scott" by now.

[nmh]

Of course the parents were clueless and she comes from a "stable family" blah, blah blah. It was a total mystery that she had a drinking problem. Isn't that the way it always is? Blame no one?

[martin_fierro]

GIRL WHO BOOZED AT 12 NEEDS NEW LIVER AT 20

That sounds series cirrhosis serious.

[Lazamataz]

GIRL WHO BOOZED AT 12 NEEDS NEW LIVER AT 20

This is so sad. The disease of addiction is a real mother****er.

[ValerieUSA]

I wonder how many times a chronically drunk 12 yr old girl has sex? I wonder how many times she's been pregnant? This sounds to me like the lifestyle of a slut -- or of a girl who caught the eye of an older man who knew how to take advantage and exploit her weakness.

[Dashing Dasher]

At the risk of also sounding callous...

I agree with you....

The first thing I thought of is... you should have thought about the consequences before this!

Say it with me gang,
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!!!!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

All I had to do was read the headline and the very first thought that went through my mind was: "UK". Mirror readers may comfort themselves in knowing, that like them, she's too smart to have voted for W.

[Wiggins]

The girl involved told doctors at the Royal University Hospital in her home city of Liverpool that she had become a frequent binge drinker by the age of 14 and continued until she was 17.

I guess she's at the right place to find a new Liver.

[clamper1797]

Looks like I'm overdue

[Cloud William]

I had not heard the "ladette" reference before, so I looked it up. In case anyone is interested, the New Oxford English Dictionary now officially lists 'ladette' as a word, defining it as 'a young woman who behaves in a boisterously assertive or crude manner and engages in heavy drinking sessions'.

As for that "she's not the sort of person this behavior is usually associated with" stuff, I suspect that just means that there is no evidence (such as arrest records) of this girl having been involved in prostitution, especially as a juvenile.