Former patients of a disgraced surgeon are set to protest at a hospital where his botched operations left them with life-changing conditions.
30.11.2022 - 08:33 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A young Scots mum in complete kidney failure is begging people to sign up as live organ donors over fears her children could be orphaned. Widow Kerry Brown was diagnosed with an extremely rare autoimmune disease called Goodpasture syndrome in January this year, which left her with just four percent kidney function.
The 36-year-old is now undergoing three four-hour sessions of dialysis a week to keep her alive, and is praying that a living donor can be found for the sake of her three kids. The family, from Cairneyhill, Fife, tragically lost husband and dad Andy in July 2018 after a short battle with an aggressive brain cancer aged 33.
Just four years later, Kerry, a former marathon runner, is now facing her own terrifying health battle while continuing to look after Eve, 14, Connor, 12, and Lewis, four. She said: “My first thought when they told me about the kidney failure was ‘but what about my kids?’
“They’ve already lost one parent so I’m all they’ve got left. And I can’t even begin to explain the fear of them not having me. I have to be here for them. This is all for them. As a mum, you would do absolutely anything you can for them.
“Life expectancy on dialysis is not the same and it does stop working after a long period of time. It puts a lot of strain on your body and affects your other organs. If I don’t find a donor, I will obviously need to stay on dialysis - I can’t live without it.
“But it is so exhausting and leaves me like a wee old woman. I’d have to go on the transplant waiting list, which I’m not even on yet because my bloods need to be stable for a certain amount of time. Finding a living donor would change my life completely and give us some sort of normality back.”
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