Getting to know you ...
(New faces, new voices at the Liver Unit)
Have you noticed? Have you heard new voices when you phoned the Transplant Coordinators' office in recent months?
Have you seen new faces during your clinic appointments? Have you met these new 'support people'? If not, let me introduce them briefly now, in the hope that they will introduce themselves in more detail in the next issue.
Suraya Cottrell, formerly a well-known junior sister in ward 10-North (Hassall), is now a liver transplant coordinator; Rebecca Lee is the new-ish office administrator and Sabrina Kruger is a new transplant coordinator.
Unfortunately I do not have any photos of them, but maybe they will produce one for next time round. In any case, this is an opportunity to welcome them and to wish them well in their new posts, without forgetting a 'thank you' for their smiling service. (Even if we don't see Rebecca, she has a 'smiling voice'!)

From the Editor (of Liverlink newsletter),
My first words as 'editor-for-a-trial-period-of-a-year' must be to thank Pamela Tasker who did such a fine job in the past two years, by giving new life to The Liverlink. Her enthusiasm was evident in her unflagging efforts to cajole, encourage or goad us into sending material that would be of interest to all liver patients. Sincere thanks, Pamela.
As I go forward on the 'Liverlink Relay' track, grasping the baton passed on by Pamela, I count on your support as I try to run with it. This issue is less varied than usual but it can serve as a link between the Spring 2009 Liverlink and what I hope will be a 'bumper' Spring 2010 issue. I trust you share my optimism!
Please get involved and send me some material, even just short paragraphs or items of information you would like to share with others. There must be lots of creativity out there, so now it just remains for me sit back and to wait for all your articles to come pouring in! Don't worry if you feel diffident about writing. I'll be happy to touch things up, without changing the content, of course.
Esther Cavanagh.