Jim Kilpatrick's life was saved via a liver from Val Renwick's husband - now they're close friends.
"It's as if she's been an integral part of our family all of my life. It's so special."He was only told the organ had come from a 64-year-old man.
"There's a minute fraction of people who go through this process and get to this stage," Jim explained.For Val and her husband Leslie, living near Wolverhampton, organ donation had been discussed, but he was not on the register.At hospital she was told there was no sign of life and was asked about organ donation."I went and spent time with Leslie on my own and then I knew," she said.
"The difficulty is there are not enough words in the English vocabulary to say what you want," he added. "I wanted Jim to know about Leslie. I can't tell you how keen I was to know about Jim's continued recovery and that was really important to me." Val had not even known Jim was from Northern Ireland, such is the redacted nature of the letter process.'Part of the family'"That without me and Leslie she probably would not have got married because she couldn't have imagined getting married without her dad. It didn't actually take me long to think I'm going to go."
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