Graeme is currently undergoing dialysis treatment but desperately needs a transplant
Graeme Smith, 40, from Blantyre was diagnosed with IgA nephropathy in 2017 after a family trip to Salou.
"The fistula in his arm for dialysis is proving problematic too as it's putting pressure on his heart and it's pumping too much blood through it which could cause heart failure. The 33-year-old shared how she felt about the living kidney sharing scheme, which offers a chance to swap or exchange donor kidneys with another donor-recipient pair in the same situation as you.
Graeme and Julie share four young sons together and they said he worries how this will affect their time as a family: "I am so grateful for my dialysis treatment keeping me alive but a transplant would greatly improve my own and my family’s quality of life. Julie said: "If he didn't get a donor now he would maybe only last another few years. It was totally unexpected, it now consumes our life."
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