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Jamie Fiske, whose 1982 liver transplant helped shape the nation's organ transplant policy, is going home in time for Halloween after recovering from spleen removal surgery, a hospital spokeswoman said Friday. The 7-year-old and her mother, Marilyn, were scheduled to fly home Saturday to East Bridgewater, Mass., said Mary Stanik, spokeswoman for the University of Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis. "She has been just great for two weeks" since being readmitted to the hospital after suffering internal bleeding, Stanik said. In 1982, Jamie's father made an emotional appeal for a donor during a convention at the American Academy of Pediatricians. A few days later, a Utah family offered to donate the liver of their 11-month-old son, who was killed in an accident.

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