Organ donor stories: 19-year-old Simran Sahajpal tells how she waited five years for a kidney transplant before going through the operation during the pandemic.
November 16, 2021 - 09:12 GMT Bridie Wilkins According to the NHS, 6118 people in the UK are currently on the waiting list for an organ transplant. They're waiting for a match to their blood group and tissue type , and despite a new law that came into place in 2020 in which adults in England are presumed to have consented to donating organs after death unless they have opted out, it's no mean feat.
"In late 2014, when I was 12, I started feeling really tired. I used to fall asleep immediately after coming back from school for hours and even when I woke up, I still didn’t have a lot of energy. I had a blood test in late February of 2015 and not long after in early March, my dad received a call saying that I needed to be taken into hospital immediately. There, my blood pressure was measured, and the results were concerning to the doctor.
"In February of 2018, I started regular peritoneal dialysis and in November of 2019, my parents and I launched the akidney4simran page as it had been four years of waiting with no luck. We hoped that we could make new connections and find a donor by raising awareness about my situation, as well as others', and organ donation as a whole.
"It has now been a year since my transplant and I’m happy to say that I still feel great. This past year has been like starting again; I don’t have to have my dialysis machine and I don’t feel anywhere near as tired as I did before. Surprisingly, I have suffered a little mentally because it's been hard adjusting.
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