 Fatal liver disease. If you don't get a transplant, you're going to die on a phone call. If you don't get a transplant, you're going to die. That's what the doctor said in the phone call, which is, hello, how you doing? It's kind of hard not to laugh at that one. I know. She got a donor, a living donor, that was a co-worker of her cousin's. Went through the whole spiel about getting tested.