Dialysis keeps you alive, a new kidney gives you your life back
Tuesday 26th April 2011, 2:29PM BST.
Donated kidney recipient Tom Robins with wife Min in the renal unit. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 1126810)
TOM ROBINS is a walking example of the importance of people signing up as donors.
Nineteen years ago, he suffered kidney failure and needed an emergency transplant. A registered donor himself at the time, he received one within four months and he has gone on to live a normal life.
In fact he has the oldest transplanted kidney in Guernsey. The normal life expectancy of a transplanted kidney is 10 to 15 years.
‘I was taken ill with something very similar to flu-like symptoms,’ said the States Works employee, who is now aged 55.
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