Incredible 3-way kidney swap

THE life of a Banton woman has been saved after she and her husband took part in an incredible three-way organ swap.

For more than 25 years, Susan Williams (53), of Valleybank, has suffered from chronic kidney failure.

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Her husband of 20 years, Mike (55), has watched helplessly as her condition has deteriorated in recent times, to a point where only three gruelling sessions of dialysis each week, undertaken in their garden shed, have kept her alive.

The couple were dealt a blow when doctors informed them they are not genetically compatible, and so Mike was unable to donate one of his kidneys to his wife.

However, they refused to give up.

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