Couple’s desperate appeal to find a kidney donor

WOMAN, 37, ON TRANSPLANT LIST FOR TWO YEARS TAKES SEARCH INTO HER OWN HANDS

A WOMAN desperate for a kidney transplant is really going the extra mile to find a donor.

Sunaina Singh, 37, was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in 2013 and her health has severely deteriorated since then.

She has to attend University Hospital Coventry three times a week for gruelling four-hour sessions of dialysis that leave her exhausted.

After being on the organ donor waiting list for two years - and having two life-changing operations heartbreakingly cancelled at the last moment - she has now taken the search into her own hands.

Sunaina and her husband Ram Kumar, also 37, have both decorated the back windscreen of their cars with a desperate plea to find her a suitable donor.

The message reads: “I need a kidney. Type ‘O’ blood” and urges anyone who can help to get in touch with them on 07789 761 236.

Sunaina said she was inspired to try the unusual method after reading about someone in America who had successfully found a donor the same way. “We just want to get it out there to as many people as possible, you never know,” she said. The couple, who live in Brindle Avenue, Copsewood, have currently got their lives on hold. They cannot travel to India to see either of their families as the risk of infection is too high, and heartbreakingly cannot start a family until her health improves. “I only went to hospital with a tummy pain and they did the blood tests then,” Sunaina said. “That was around six or seven years ago and then we found out that I have chronic kidney disease. “At the time my kidney function was around 25 per cent. “I still get people saying that I don’t look like I have a kidney problem. “At first I was like this can’t happen to me, everything will be fine. “But in the last few years I have deteriorated very badly. I feel such tiredness all the time, I am suffering with pain and with my health overall. “When I come back from dialysis all I do is sleep because I can’t do anything else.” The couple have only had the plea stuck on their cars for around four weeks but have already been getting interest from up and down the country.