My sis give me her kidney...and a taste for red wine

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My sis give me her kidney...and a taste for red wine

May 9 2008 By Karen Bale

A MUM-OF-TWO claims she's developed a taste for red wine after receiving a kidney from her sister.

A MUM-OF-TWO claims she's developed a taste for red wine after receiving a kidney from her sister.

Lesley Angus, who suffered from kidney disease, was given a healthy organ by older sister Lorainne Moar in a transplant operation.

The 34-year-old is back to full health following the surgery and has developed a taste for her sister's favourite tipple - red wine.

She said yesterday: "I never used to drink red wine. Then all of a sudden I liked it.

"I've had white wine, red and rose and that's since I got the kidney. I never drank it before."

Lorainne, 44, offered to donate her healthy kidney to Lesley when her little sister fell seriously ill in 2005.

Lesley, of Balmedie, near Aberdeen, was diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome - which causes the kidneys to leak protein from the blood into the urine - after giving birth to her second child in 1997.

She was eventually put on peritoneal dialysis, a home-based treatment which she went through four times a day.

Lesley had just been put on the waiting list for a kidney transplant when Lorainne offered to donate her organ. Tests confirmed her kidney was a perfect match, so the sisters had the transplant operation at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Lorainne said last night: "We have always been close. There is 11 years between Lesley and I but there are a lot of similarities and it just felt right.

"I'm a healthy person so it didn't seem major. I just felt it was something I needed to find out about and help her.

"And I've no regrets. You can certainly survive on one kidney."

Lesley, a childminder, is now enjoying her new lease of life.

She said: "If the situation was reversed, I would have done the same."

To help other renal patients, Lorainne ditched her gift list at her wedding to husband Eric last month and asked for donations to charity instead.

Around 150 guests at the evening reception in the Northern Hotel, Aberdeen, helped collect £2000, which is to be split between the renal dialysis unit at Inverurie Hospital and Meningitis Research.

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