Murray • A Utah mom is hepatitis-free for the first time in 27 years, thanks to a live liver donation from her son. And the procedure portends more such life-saving operations at Intermountain Medical Center in the months and years to come.
On Feb. 6, Gwen Finlayson, 63 — the wife of retiring Springville police Chief J. Scott Finlayson — received the left lobe of her son’s liver. She’d been told “several times” over the years that she would eventually need a liver transplant. But she thought she could “muscle her way through,” until it became clear she needed the transplant soon.