内容摘要：with end-stage liver disease don’t know anything about it until they are admitted to hospital with symptoms such as jaundice, fluid retention and abnormal bleeding.

with end-stage liver disease don’t know anything about it until they are admitted to hospital with symptoms such as jaundice, fluid retention and abnormal bleeding.

"The worst season was the winter. I remember top-and-tailing the sugar beet with a big chopper and my hands were so frozen I was worried I would have an accident," she says."That was harsh, but the harvest time was the best. We worked until 10 o'clock at night, but I can't fault it - and I got to drive a tractor," she says.

While she no longer drives a tractor, Eileen still drives a car, taking hers to the local shops"I suppose they'll tell me to stop driving one day, but I feel quite safe - I don't go mad," she says.,She also drives to the village church where she lays a wreath each Remembrance Sunday.

She feels it is important that the duty of remembrance is continued and passed on."A lot of people don't care about it now, do they really?" she says.

"Let's face it, it's only us that belong to something that keeps things going.

"They should have more talks in schools. I've spoken in schools about it because we have to remember that if people didn't give their lives it could have gone the other way and we could have been invaded."During labour, she was told her son Rupert had died.

"It was the worst thing that had ever happened to me, it literally feels like you’re in a horror film."It’s unbelievably painful."

She said after the birth she was told she would be given medication to dry up her milk."It felt so wrong, I knew I still wanted to donate.