About

The LiverSpot is a community for people with a diseased liver, kidney, or other organ (“OrganSpot”) who want to provide knowledge and support to each other.

The main discussion and content is hosted at r/liverspot

Ability to Contribute

This site is hosted at GitHub, it built with Jekyll, and is currently deployed on GitHub Pages. If you want to contribute content directly, just submit a pull request to the repo. The source files are in ‘/docs’

History

The concept of supporting organ transplant, pre-transplant, and (hopefully) no-transplant patients came from personal experience in how daunting it is to understand these potentially-terminal diseases and their treatments, and in working with others that are in similar situations.

Although a patient’s medical team is always the primary source of information, their time is limited and it is common for questions to come up outside appointments (with even less medical-team attention). Further, each patient’s team has solely a provider experience (normally) and they may also be limited in knowledge about other approaches. We believe that by combining the knowledge, experience, and provider-team expertise from multiple patients, a better explanation and understanding can be provided to others.