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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: News Articles => Topic started by: okarol on August 18, 2008, 01:55:19 PM
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Anti-freeze hubby gets bruv's kidney
By ANDREW PARKER
Published: Today
A HUSBAND whose evil wife poisoned him with anti-freeze has been given a life-saving kidney by his younger brother.
Lee Knight, 38, was left deaf and blind and with severe kidney damage after wife Kate doctored his wine and curry with chemicals.
She wanted the JCB worker dead to get a 130,000 insurance payout after running up debts.
Lee survived after five months in a coma but had to have dialysis three times a week.
Doctors told him he needed an urgent transplant but no suitable donor could be found.
But then Lee’s brother Michael, 37, said: "You can have one of mine."
The brothers, who had months of tests before medics decided their organs were a match, are recovering side by side after the op at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre.
Surgeons said gardener Michael’s healthy kidney had began working immediately inside his brother and Lee’s prospects for a longer life were "brilliant".
Lee, of Stoke, Staffs, said: "I can’t see Michael because of my blindness but I know he’ll be smiling because he’s been able to help me. Only a true brother could make such a sacrifice."
Michael said: "As soon as I realised Lee wanted a kidney I volunteered. I’ve given him the chance of a life and after what he’s been through he deserves it."
Kate, 29, was sentenced to 30 years in February for attempted murder.
a.parker@the-sun.co.uk
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1570031.ece
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Glad he pulled through and thanks to the Brother. Get a rope for his wife.