A Framingham woman who received two liver transplants as a child is now working to pay it forward by studying to become a transplant nurse."I grew up in a hospital and didn't realize until middle school that that's not normal for everybody," Laurie Lukianov said.For as long as she can remember, Lukianov has wanted to be a nurse.Born with biliary atresia, she needed not one, but two liver transplants to save her life.At 3 years old she made headlines when she became one of the first patients in the country to receive a liver transplant from a living donor -- her father, Alex Lukianov"It's your kid," he said. "You've gotta do what you've gotta do for your kid. You take care of them."By the time she was 13, Laurie Lukianov would need a second liver transplant..It would eventually come from an organ donor, and she would find herself fighting for her life."I had 13 emergency surgeries from the two-week span from the initial transplant," Laurie Lukianov said. "So that was tough.But she proved she was tougher. She fought her way back to good health with the help of her family, a great surgeon and nurses."I remember hanging out with them, and they would take me down to the big cafeteria instead of getting the hospital food," Laurie Lukianov said. "They designated a computer for me so I could instant message my friends."Tuesday Laurie Lukianov turns 26-years-old, and while she will always take immunosupressant medication, she said life is good.She's a mother to a 6-year-old boy, already works in a local emergency room and is finishing up her first year of nursing school.She said she's ready to pay it forward."Especially pediatrics," she said. "I can empathize with them a lot more because I've been in their shoes."Laurie Lukianov is also passionate about organ donation. She tries to reassure potential donors that everything is always done to save a life, but when modern medicine falls short the gift of life is never lost on the recipient.