Fundraisers set for woman recovering from liver transplant

Friends and family of Dianna Longknife Main, 61, a member of the Assiniboine, or Nakoda, Tribe of Fort Belknap Indian Reservation have set up some fundraisers to help cover costs while she recovers from a liver transplant.

Lorraine Pester, her cousin, said Main had been waiting for a transplant for non-alcohol related liver disease at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, and then was transferred to the list at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix.

With her overall condition quickly deteriorating, she received a transplant in Phoenix in about three weeks, about a month-a-and-a-half ago, Pester said, and has bee...