Stoke-on-Trent man in adoption hopes after transplant Former pottery worker Steven Grattage has had kidney dialysis three times a week for the past six years.
But now a milestone operation at a Coventry hospital "will transform" his life - and, he hopes, help him to adopt a girl he has fostered since she was two.
The 43-year-old has become the 100th kidney transplant patient who has had their blood washed clean of antibodies at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.
The hospital, which carries out a so-called Antibody Incompatible transplant, uses a technique that washes away antibodies in the blood that attack a donated organ.
It has given people "who were previously thought untransplantable the chance of a transformed life", the hospital added.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13888876(I thought it was a lovely story; I hope they can now become a secure little family unit.)
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