Almost a year after the first living liver transplant in Kansas, the recipient is celebrating a new lease on life following a second surgery.

He also is expressing deep gratitude for his donor's life-changing generosity.

Brandon Morrisons liver disease diagnosis came with uncertainties.

I thought, well am I going to make it for a year, you know?" Morrison said. "Am I going to be here for Christmas or whats going to happen?

He learned he needed a liver transplant.

I was shocked, as anyone would be, he said.

Just waiting and waiting, and at the same time, knowing that youre not going to get one anytime soon," Morrison said.

He almost lost hope of getting a liver.

But he found a liver at a new University of Kansas Health System program where doctors were ready to perform the first liv

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