Why Natalia risked death to give a kidney to a stranger: 'I did it in memory of my murdered mother, who gave me my first donor card'
Daily Mail | Zoe Brennan
Altruistic: Mother of four Sue Jepson, 51, donated her kidney to a desperately ill four-year-old boy, who then went on to start school and have his first holiday, all thanks to her.
Sue Jepson didn't tell her partner, Glenn, what she was up to until her first hospital appointment was already in the diary.
'You're crazy,' he told her, after learning that she was planning to put her life at risk in a major, and entirely unnecessary, operation.
But the mother of four stood firm. For although Sue, 51, wasn't going under the knife for the good of her own health, it certainly wasn't for vanity either. It was to save the life of someone she had never met by donating one of her kidneys to a total stranger.
In return, she would get nothing more than the satisfaction of knowing she had helped someone in need.
Last month, it emerged that the number of 'altruistic organ donors' such as Sue has almost trebled in the UK in just one year.
Donating an organ to a stranger has only been allowed in Britain since 2006. Before that, people could only make living donations to relatives or friends.
Sue Jepson didn't tell her partner, Glenn, what she was up to until her first hospital appointment was already in the diary.
'You're crazy,' he told her, after learning that she was planning to put her life at risk in a major, and entirely unnecessary, operation.
But the mother of four stood firm. For although Sue, 51, wasn't going under the knife for the good of her own health, it certainly wasn't for vanity either. It was to save the life of someone she had never met by donating one of her kidneys to a total stranger.
In return, she would get nothing more than the satisfaction of knowing she had helped someone in need.
Last month, it emerged that the number of 'altruistic organ donors' such as Sue has almost trebled in the UK in just one year.
Donating an organ to a stranger has only been allowed in Britain since 2006. Before that, people could only make living donations to relatives or friends.
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"You have the power to SAVE lives."
To register as a donor in California:
www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org | www.doneVIDAcalifornia.org
Outside California:
www.organdonor.gov | www.donatelife.net
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