Nicholas Crace donated his left kidney to a stranger in 2012 when he was 83.
A man who became the UK's oldest person to donate a kidney to a stranger has celebrated his 95th birthday.
Nicholas Crace, from Hampshire, gave his left kidney to a woman in Sheffield in 2012, when he was 83.NHS Blood and Transplant said seven people aged 80 or over had donated kidneys altruistically since Mr Crace's gift.Image source,Mr Crace, formerly of Overton, said he contacted the NHS about his kidney when "there wasn't very much for me to do" following his wife's death in 2011.
He said: "I'd been a blood donor all my life and I thought it might be useful to give another thing away.Mr Crace had the operation at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth and was sent home with painkillers which he said he never took.He said the recipient, who had been on dialysis for four years, enjoyed a "new life" following the transplant.
"She could travel, she could go on holiday, she could do all sorts of things that she couldn't do before," he explained.Mr Crace celebrated his birthday with staff at Sutton Manor Care Home in Sutton Scotney, near Winchester, where he lives. The charity Give A Kidney, which promotes donations, said only six people made "non-directed", or altruistic, donations in the UK in 2007/08.It added more than 4,500 people were on the NHS waiting list for a kidney transplant.
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