Waiting for an organ transplant that would transform your life can be agonising – and now 39-year-old Gordon Devonshire is doing it for the second time.
Gordon, who was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease when he was just 18, has already had one kidney transplant, but that organ failed after four years and he now needs another.
The 2005 transplant, which Gordon had been waiting for for more than two years, changed his life.
For the five years before the transplant – ever since his kidneys failed – Gordon had been undergoing dialysis treatment three times a week, taking a selection of tablets and keeping to a strict diet.
Gordon said: “I wasn’t 100 per cent sure how they did dialysis before. You feel like you’ve been drained of fluids. When you first have it you have it, you have tubes hanging out of you.”
Every dialysis session, which Ware resident Gordon has after work at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, involves him being hooked up to a machine for four hours.
Read more: http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/Health-and-Beauty/Mercury-1000-campaign/Playing-the-waiting-game-a-second-time-03052012.htm
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