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Inspired by his brush with death last year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Friday made a surprise appearance at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital to describe how a liver transplant saved his life — and why patients with less wealth and fame should have the same opportunities.

“I was almost one of the ones that died waiting for a liver in California last year,” said Jobs, whippet-thin but healthy. He appeared at a brief event with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to unveil a new legislative effort to greatly expand the number of California organ donors.

In his first public description of his much-rumored but long-secret crisis, Jobs said “there were simply not enough livers in California to go around, and my doctors here advised me to enroll in a transplant program in Memphis, where the supply-demand ratio of livers is more favorable than it is in California.”

“I was very fortunate,” the notoriously private Apple icon shared with an audience of doctors, transplant patients and media. A Tennessee donor was a match — and Jobs had a jet available to rush cross-country within the four-hour window needed for successful surgery. “Many others died waiting to receive one.”

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14714795?nclick_check=1