Transplant patient finally receives the life-saving gift of a kidney after waiting 30 YEARS
- 5 years ago
A transplant patient has finally received the life-saving gift of a kidney - after 30 YEARS on the waiting list.
David Dawson, 52, said he feels like he has "won the lottery" and is looking forward to enjoying a beer following the successful organ transplant earlier this month.
The former jeweller had resigned himself to a lifetime of dialysis treatment after being stuck on the waiting list since a failed transplant in 1984, when he was 22.
And he thought he had been victim of a prank when he received a 4am phone call on June 30 to say a suitable donor had been found.
Within 12 hours he was on the operating table at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth (QE)Hospital to receive the vital gift of life he had been waiting over 10,000 days for.
David was released from hospital on July 10 putting to an end three decades of having to endure dialysis treatment three times week.
His wait is one of the longest ever for an organ on the NHS - and is 10 times that of the average three year waiting time in the UK.
Yesterday (Wed) David, from Milton, in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs., said he is now looking forward to enjoying the simple things in life - such as a coffee, bananas and a pint of lager.
David Dawson, 52, said he feels like he has "won the lottery" and is looking forward to enjoying a beer following the successful organ transplant earlier this month.
The former jeweller had resigned himself to a lifetime of dialysis treatment after being stuck on the waiting list since a failed transplant in 1984, when he was 22.
And he thought he had been victim of a prank when he received a 4am phone call on June 30 to say a suitable donor had been found.
Within 12 hours he was on the operating table at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth (QE)Hospital to receive the vital gift of life he had been waiting over 10,000 days for.
David was released from hospital on July 10 putting to an end three decades of having to endure dialysis treatment three times week.
His wait is one of the longest ever for an organ on the NHS - and is 10 times that of the average three year waiting time in the UK.
Yesterday (Wed) David, from Milton, in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs., said he is now looking forward to enjoying the simple things in life - such as a coffee, bananas and a pint of lager.