Transplant Survivor's Mission for a Medal...
May 05, 2016, 01:11 PM
(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, May 2016)
Right at this moment there are more than seven thousand people in the UK waiting for an organ transplant -- but NHS figures suggest around 1 in 5 of those will die before a donor is found.
So imagine being told you've got weeks to live,writing goodbye letters to your children and planning your funeral, to finally hear the news that a donor has been found.
That's what happened to 42-year-old mother-of-three Sue Bennett from Ranton near Stafford.
She had a liver transplant last summer and twelve months on plans to compete in the 2016 UK Transplant Games in honour of her donor.
BBC Radio Stoke's EMMA THOMAS has been to see her in training at imotion gym in Stafford...