Overview
- Harry Wilson, 65, from Broxburn, donated a kidney to his brother Gordon, 67, from Torphichen, after Gordon was told he needed a transplant.
- Gordon had been on home dialysis from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily and described the treatment as exhausting and disruptive.
- Harry called the decision a “no-brainer,” saying he would have donated even with a 50/50 survival chance, and Gordon says he is now back to his old self.
- NHS Lothian consultant transplant surgeon John Terrace praised the outcome as proof of the transformative impact of living donation.
- The account coincides with Edinburgh’s commemoration of the 1960 twin-to-twin transplant by Sir Michael Woodruff, after which more than 2,000 living donor kidney transplants have been performed in Scotland.