Patricia Martinez Pavin

Patricia Martinez Reyes de Pavin (Pat) succumbed to liver failure on the night of 6 May 2021. She was 71 years old. She was born in Gilroy CA (“Garlic Capital of the World”) and grew-up mostly in Fontana CA (with a lot of back-and-forth Gilroy/Fontana in between).She went to Chaffey Community College, Humboldt University, and received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from National University while working full time. She worked sales, temp, and administrative jobs mostly related to customer service.I (Randy – her husband) shared the last 38 years with her. Most of our free life was spent traveling, internationally mostly but some California and other U.S. states. We never had children as we were always too busy playing.About 30 years ago she was diagnosed with a relatively rare disease referred to as PBC that would eventually destroy her liver. She was put on a transplant list and luckily received one on 4 March 2002 at UCI. We were told the transplanted liver probably will last about 20 years and by that time another transplant or advancements in medicine. Over the last year or so her liver blood test results were slowly/gradually getting worse. The doctors throughout many tests thought it could either be her original disease, PBC (it had never gone away but perhaps now worse), or rejection. At the end of February this year, as she was showing signs of weakness, a new liver biopsy showed “chronic rejection”. Nothing except another transplant could deal with or cure chronic rejection. The transplant center at Loma Linda University took her and evaluated her positive for all liver transplant criteria except strength; she needed to be stronger to recover from the surgery. Unfortunately, though it was obvious she continually tried, her weakness progressed at a steep rate. She really never had a chance for a second transplant.

Donations can be made in Patricia's name to Donate Life:  https://www.classy.org/give/208615/#!/donation/checkout