Dad donates kidney to stranger after daughter's transplant

A begetter has donated a kidney to a alien aft his ain girl received her ain life-changing kidney from a donor.

Arfon Jones, from Cardiff, joined a living donor scheme though helium recovered helium was not a lucifer for girl Seren, 19, who became earnestly unwell and ended up having some kidneys removed.

He became a donor past period aft she received a donor kidney successful April.

"I felt that I had fixed idiosyncratic a bully Christmas present," helium said.

After months of Seren being connected dialysis for 10 hours each night, Arfon took an aboriginal greeting telephone past April to accidental that a suitable kidney had go available.

"It's specified a immense gift," she said.

"Without the kidney I wouldn't beryllium live today, possibly, oregon I would surely person had to proceed with 10 hours of dialysis."

Mr Jones said the telephone telephone was "amazing".

"They operated overnight and it has each changed our beingness completely."

While Seren was awaiting a kidney, the household came crossed the NHS's surviving donor strategy and, though Mr Jones was not a match, helium felt compelled to assistance others.

He said helium did not cognize who had received his kidney but helium understood that their wellness was improving.

"After Seren got her caller kidney, she was told that I could get disconnected the surviving donor database and that's erstwhile I had a precise unusual experience," said Arfon.

"It was arsenic if I heard a dependable telling maine 'there is idiosyncratic other who needs your kidney' and I conscionable felt that I had to enactment connected the list."

He had the process successful December and said: "It felt similar I'd fixed idiosyncratic rather a bully Christmas contiguous and it was bully to cognize that I'm steadfast capable to donate a kidney fixed that I'm astir 70."