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Bade Starts School
The bleeding from her finger that began when her nail was cut, before she was even forty days old, and could not be stopped was the start of the great problems that led Bade Kaya to an organ transplant at just 8 months old; but those hard and bad days have become mere memories. Bade, who came back to life through a liver transplant from her father Ali Can Kaya, has grown up healthy and this year started primary school together with her peers.
The health problems of Bade, the daughter of İzmir housewife Cemile Türkmen (27) and tourism worker Ali Can Kaya (31), born on 21 June 2013, began when she was one month old. Her mother, Cemile Türkmen, wanted to trim her daughter's long fingernails; but during this, bleeding started from Bade's finger and she could not stop it no matter what she did. Türkmen immediately took her daughter to a hospital in Kuşadası, where they were living at the time. While efforts were made to stop the bleeding, Bade's jaundice, known as newborn jaundice, was also investigated. After the hospital in Kuşadası, Türkmen took her daughter first to Dr. Behçet Uz Training and Research Hospital and from there to Ege University Hospital. The tests carried out led to a diagnosis of congenital absence of the bile ducts (biliary atresia) for Bade. While it was stated that this condition would lead Bade to a liver transplant, an operation was performed at 3 months old in order to buy time for her to grow. When Bade was 20 months old she was admitted to İzmir Kent Hospital, and a liver transplant was performed on 11 February 2014. The liver transplant from her father Ali Can Kaya was carried out by the team including Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Kılıç and Op. Dr. Cahit Yılmaz. First Mr. Kaya, the father, and then his little daughter Bade were discharged in good health. The hard and bad days have now become mere memories. Bade, who came back to life through the liver transplant from her father Ali Can Kaya, has grown up healthy and this year started primary school together with her peers. Her mother Cemile Türkmen, noting that her daughter has passed the post-transplant period without problems and has started at Vali Rahmi Bey Primary School this school year, said: “When I was cutting my daughter's nail, it never even crossed my mind that the bleeding that started in her finger would lead us to a liver transplant. They were very hard, troubled days, full of fear and anxiety. Hospitals had become our second address; but what matters is the result. We have left those hard days behind. My daughter has regained her health, and I thank everyone who contributed to her recovery, above all the liver transplant team at Kent Hospital, very much. Bade is a very sweet, talkative, very sociable child. Now that she has started school, when people ask her what she will become, she says she will be a doctor. But her mind changes often. My only wish is for her to be a healthy and happy child.” Op. Dr. Cahit Yılmaz of the Kent Hospital liver transplant team, noting that Bade lives a normal life like her peers, said: “Bade has routine check-ups, and her health record is good. This year she started school like her peers. Seeing paediatric patients like Bade lead normal lives makes us forget all our fatigue.”
