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Sheffield woman meets recipient of sister’s hands
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04/04/2025
Watch the moment Deborah Gosling, from Sheffield, met Corinne Hutton - the transplant patient who received her twin sister’s hands.
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Julie was very different to myself, totally different personalities, she was
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such a soft, caring person, she was absolutely fine. Two minutes later,
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Deborah, Deborah, she says you can't go, she says I've got a headache, you need to
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phone an ambulance and then she started mumbling her words. So I got her in the
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car, took her to hospital, she got worse and worse en route, a nurse and doctor
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came on scene and took her into the resus room and she was unconscious from
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then and I knew that I'd lost my sister then, I knew. I was unfortunate enough to
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have a bad cough which led to pneumonia and the pneumonia led to sepsis but I
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didn't die so very, very lucky in that respect but unlucky enough that my
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extremities were starved of oxygen and I lost my hands and my legs as a result.
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When the specialist nurse came to see me, it wasn't a hard decision, I said
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straight away, no problem, definitely. A new thing about giving, donating the
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organs as in your limbs and I was quite took back by experience because I've not
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heard of it before but to take Julie's limbs and to give somebody a chance of
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enhancing their life is absolutely incredible.
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The call comes completely out the blue and they'd found a donor and it was all
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systems go, almost instantly at that point, your thoughts go to the donor
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family. We're in my excitement, my family's excitement, we know all too well
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what they're going through. Meeting the family was something I was very prepared
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to do if they wanted to meet me.
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Deborah? Hi. Corrine, how you doing? Pleased to meet you. Hi Corrine.
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Shake your hand because I can. Yeah. Is that a good enough grip? That's fantastic.
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Can I give you a hug? Yeah.
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You're very brave, have a good look.
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You have beautiful hands. I know that. I know that, they were perfect when I got them.
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They're just wonderful and every day they're doing more than they were the day before.
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She would be so proud, she would, absolutely so proud.
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For somebody to use her hands is absolutely incredible.
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The difference for me has been absolutely life-changing. I'm so grateful
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to the family for making that really, really hard decision and I'll never
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forget that I'm lucky, I'll never forget where they've come from and hopefully
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I'll give them a good life.
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