My only concern throughout the process was that we would go through everything and his body would reject, but we were assured by his team that they would do everything in their power to stop that from happening, and that if they didn’t think we had the best chance with a direct donation they would suggest that we enter the sharing scheme instead.
I went down to theatre at 8.30am, and by 11.30am was being bought back round to the news that my husbands operation was well under way and progressing well. At 6pm that evening he returned to the ward with my kidney safely transplanted and some fantastic pictures of said kidney in his medical notes!!
My surgeon gave me some local anaesthetic in my abdomen before I came round, and I didn’t feel the need to take any further pain relief.
On day 3 I was discharged back to our teenagers at home, to take full advantage of them being out of their bedrooms and offering to help! For the first week or so I moved much slower than I usually would, but was able to go and visit my husband back on the ward.
