Five-year-old Lani still takes seven medicines with her breakfast every morning. "She’s very good about it," says her father David．Lani is alive today because of her father David, in more than one way; when she was one year old she received part of her father’s liver in a liver—transplant operation. Lani was born with a liver illness. ________. Doctors advised that a transplant was the only way in which she would live.
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