Couple recover after transplant

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Couple recover after transplant

 10 October 2007

A recently married woman is recovering in hospital after her 29-year-old husband donated a kidney to her for a transplant operation.

Sylv Robinson, 32, from Heanor, Derbyshire, suffers from kidney disease and needed a life-saving transplant.

Her husband Craig is also recovering at Nottingham City Hospital in Nottingham after having the kidney removed.

Both operations were successful and both are very comfortable, according to surgeon Keith Rigg.

Keyhole surgery

"The kidney is showing signs of function," he said a few hours after the operation.

The donor kidney was removed using a keyhole surgical method, so Mr Robinson will be able to leave hospital in three or four days.

Mrs Robinson is expected to remain in hospital for at least a week.

The 32-year-old has been on dialysis for 12 years at the Nottingham City Hospital.

Mrs Robinson said before the operation: "I haven't had a wink of sleep all night thinking about it. It is going to make a massive difference to me.

"I have had this over-whelming urge to cry all morning," she said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/7038507.stm
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