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ShareSeven months after receiving a healthy kidney from his wife, Borivli-resident Tarun Vyas, 59, says he still cannot believe his luck. "I had lost all hope and had resigned to a painful death," said the estate agent and builder, speaking on the eve of Organ Donor's day.
Like several other patients of kidney failure, Vyas' diabetic condition was the reason behind his kidney disease. Diabetics are 17 times more prone to develop kidney disease, say nephrologists.
Vyas, a diabetes patient for the past 15 years, and who had already lost the vision in one of his eyes to the disease, was diagnosed with kidney disease in March 2008. "In a span of a few months, I was given two options: either undergo lifelong dialysis or a kidney transplant," said Vyas.
Luckily, Vyas found a willing donor in his doting 57-year-old wife, Bharti. The couple underwent an array of tests to determine if Bharti's kidney could be transplanted and a date was finalised.
But then Vyas had to go through a major bypass surgery instead of the scheduled kidney transplant since a blockage was detected in his heart. Post the bypass surgery too, once again, he developed bleeding in the arm, for which he had to undergo yet another surgery.
Finally on April 23, 2009, Vyas received his wife's kidney.
