If Tessa hadn’t received a donor kidney, she’d have to spend the rest of her life “on the devices” three or four days a week. This is called dialysis, which is reality for many kidney patients. “On average it takes twenty years with a donor kidney. Ten years ago I said: let’s go for thirty. By celebrating every year that the donor kidney is still in good shape, we celebrate that I had to live without devices for another year. ”
Father Peter and daughter Tessa celebrate birthday of donor kidney: ‘It has strengthened our bond’
