What are the odds that any transplant patient could end up like Demi Brennan of Sydney, Australia? Next to impossible. “I feel like a normal person,” she said. She’s 15 now, but six years ago she had a liver transplant – major surgery but pretty routine. What happened next, some people are calling a miracle. “We didn’t believe her,” said Dr. Stephen Alexander. “We thought that this was just too strange an occurrence to occur.” Most patients have to take strong medications to prevent their bodies from rejecting donated tissue. But Demi’s body not only accepted the donated liver, it actually adopted the immune system – even the blood type of the donor. “When it was first brought by the … Continue reading Demi-Lee Brennan: How her blood type changed from O negative to O positive