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• Organ donation & transplant >> Organ donation >> Recipients >> Deepak - Interview 12 >> Shortly after surgery, Deepak’s new kidney seemed to stop working. When it wasn’t getting any better, he felt he could no longer cope. About nine days

Deepak had kidney disease from his early 30s and, later, had dialysis for two weeks. In 1995 he had a kidney transplant, aged 35. His new kidney took about ten days to start working properly, an extremely worrying time. Deepak is very well now.

• Organ donation & transplant >> Organ donation >> Recipients >> Diana - Interview 03 >> Four months after her transplant, Diana felt suicidal and wondered if she could keep taking all the tablets she’d been prescribed. She was processing

Diana had a heart and lung transplant in 2002, aged 46. She had a lot of sickness for about four months and felt depressed. She started feeling better after about six months and, over eight years on, is very well.

• Organ donation & transplant >> Organ donation >> Recipients >> Liz - Interview 27 >> Twenty years after her transplant, Liz became quite anxious. She eventually left her marriage. She had some counselling and now feels more positive ab

Liz had a kidney transplant in 1990, aged 19. The donor was her mother. Both she and Liz recovered well. Liz went on to have two daughters and to become a professional musician. She is a professor of music at the conservatoire she studied at.

• Organ donation & transplant >> Organ donation >> Living donors >> Harmanjit - Interview 38 >> Harmanjit’s biggest worry was that the kidney she gave her father would reject. It would mean him going on dialysis or having the operation again with

Harmanjit donated a kidney to her father in 2008, when she was 29. He was 68 at the time and faced the prospect of dialysis. Both of them recovered well. Harmanjit is now keen to raise awareness of kidney donation amongst British South Asians.