Kidney transplant recipient Michelle Geraghty, from Salthill, County Galway, is pictured with her son Dylan Ryan (5) at the National Launch of Organ Donation Awareness Week 2023 at the Mansion House in Dublin. Photo: Andres Poveda
Michelle Geraghty remembers spending nights hooked up to a life preserver, unable to look after her crying baby son Dylan.
His mother, 44, from Salthill, County Galway, had end-stage renal failure for two years after Dylan was born and had been undergoing peritoneal dialysis at home, eight hours a day, seven days a week.