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A courageous wee boy returns to highschool in the present day sporting garments 4 sizes larger after the “greatest summer time of his life”.
Christopher Cairney, seven, had a kidney transplant throughout lockdown and is now having fun with his new discovered freedom.
And as he runs about together with his wee sister, Lexii, 5, trying each inch a typical seven-year-old, it’s onerous to consider his mum was advised he wouldn’t reside to 2 weeks outdated.
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Christopher, from Larkhall, was recognized with kidney dysplasia – a situation the place one or two kidneys don’t develop correctly within the womb – and stage 5 renal failure when he was only a week outdated.
Due to his kidney issues, since beginning he has been unable to eat foods excessive in potassium like bananas, yogurt, chocolate and tomatoes – which additionally dominated out his favorite meals Pepperoni pizza.
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And till this summer time he had by no means visited the seaside or splashed within the sea to forestall the dialysis tube in his abdomen turning into contaminated.
A 12 months on from his kidney transplant his life has been reworked, however issues regarded a lot bleaker within the days following his beginning.
His mum Stacey, 27, mentioned: “I had Christopher on the Thursday and acquired dwelling on the Saturday however we acquired despatched again into Wishaw Basic on the Monday as a result of he had misplaced 15 per cent of his birthweight.”
Two days later a health care provider advised Stacey Christopher was “a really sick child” they usually have been planning to switch him to the Royal Hospital for Kids in Glasgow. He was transferred at per week outdated.
Christopher Cairney, 7, after a profitable kidney transplant {Photograph} © Jamie Williamson jamiewilliamson.com
Stacey mentioned: “That first Friday we have been in Glasgow they advised me that he wouldn’t see the next Friday.”
Stacey, then simply 21, remembered: “My ears began ringing and I didn’t hear the rest.”
Towards the percentages, Christopher pulled by and Stacey discovered rapidly to suit feeding tubes.
By two years outdated he was having dialysis 3 times per week which meant he and his mum have been separated from his child sister.
He grew up in hospital, taking his dialysis and all of the resultant blood exams in his stride.
He was positioned on the kidney transplant listing simply after he turned 5 and was on it for a 12 months earlier than he was moved on to the emergency listing.
On Might 25 final 12 months the household obtained the information they’d been ready for – an ideal match had been discovered.
Stacey mentioned: “We acquired a telephone name at 5.50am to inform me there was a possible kidney for Christopher.
“I bounced proper up off my sofa and began screaming on the high of my lungs. It was simply elating.
“I had dreamt of today for so long as I can bear in mind.”
Christopher had all the time picked over meals, with barely an urge for food, however when he returned to the common ward after his surgical procedure the next day he demanded a Chinese language perform and ate “a whole lot”.
He has been consuming Stacey out of home and residential ever since.
She added: “He was solely ever allowed a shallow bathtub to cowl his legs however now he has baths with bubbles as much as his neck.”
And for the primary time this 12 months they loved a household vacation in Burntisland, Fife.
Stacey mentioned: “It’s been unimaginable to observe my boy working concerning the seaside, out and in the water and enjoying like all the opposite wee boys.
“He acquired his dream of a pool get together for his birthday in July – simply our wee bubble, nevertheless it was actually particular.
“That is the primary ever summer time that didn’t embody a hospital go to.
“Christopher has modified a lot. He’s taken an actual stretch and stuffed out.
“When he began in P1 he was in age three to 4 garments. I’ve simply acquired him his new uniform and he’s in age seven to eight and his jacket is a 9 to 10.
Christopher has been below the care of specialists on the Royal Hospital for Kids all his life and continues to be monitored by his kidney staff.
And in the present day as Christopher begins major two at Hareleeshill Main Faculty he’ll get to be a correct huge brother to Lexii and information her by her first day at college.
Dr Ben Reynolds, Christopher’s kidney physician, mentioned: “Everybody within the staff is delighted with how nicely Christopher has finished after his transplant.
“He was a bundle of power on dialysis and was often as much as mischief on the ward.
“It’s implausible that each one his power and mischievousness is now used up at dwelling and faculty as a substitute.”
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