New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Nurse becomes donor I SAVED MY HUSBAND’S LIFE

Last year, Kate Trethewey was lying on an operating table having her kidney removed in a transplant operation that saved her husband’s life. The mother-of-two knew first-hand the difference a transplant can make – over the past seven years, she has been involved in several organ retrieval procedures in her role as a theatre nurse at Christchurch Hospital.

“My husband Steve had a childhood kidney condition, but it wasn’t until a decade ago that

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