Thanks For My Kidney, Mum!

A heartfelt and inspiring story of one young woman's brave and adventurous attitude of living each day to the full, following a life-changing diagnosis of chronic kidney disease (CKD).

In this hard-to-put-down memoir, Kay Allardyce shares her journey with CKD, describing the years leading up to and undergoing a kidney transplant. Her roller-coaster ride of emotions includes diary extracts detailing her lived experience of having a pre-emptive transplant, receiving a kidney from her mother and her post-operative recovery.

Undertaking a charity bike ride from London to Paris mere months after transplant surgery is just one example of Kay's uplifting ambition to embrace the gift of life an organ donation can bring. She expresses her experience of pregnancy and giving birth to two children following her kidney transplant and offers invaluable information and sources of support for women with kidney disease.

This beautifully candid and heart-warming memoir will educate, inform and inspire you to live the life you deserve.

Author: Kay Allardyce
Publisher: Kay Allardyce
Published: 08/23/2023
Pages: 166
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9781739452612

About the Author
Allardyce, Kay: - Kay is a kidney transplant recipient with both personal and professional backgrounds in healthcare as an osteopath with a naturopathic diploma. Kay advocates organ donation and transplantation in conjunction with renal failure. Kay's goal, with writing this memoir, is to offer hope and assurance that a diagnosis of CKD is not the end. By speaking about the diagnosis with family and friends, a gift of life could offer you the life you deserve. Kay has published written articles for kidney charities and is an active fundraiser for kidney charities such as Kidney Research UK along with GSTT charity whereby she cycled from London to Paris six months post-transplant surgery in 2013.Alongside her osteopathic practice, Kay teaches Pilates and enjoys travelling with her husband and two children. Kay's children were both born following transplant surgery. Please go to www.kosteo.co.uk to learn more.