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BY JEREMY ARMSTRONG

CAMPAIGN Max and mum Emma

Max tribute to

girl who gave

him her heart

YOUNG Mirror campaigner Max

Johnson left an audience in tears

with a moving tribute to the young

girl who saved his life.

Max, 11, told an Organ Donation

Week event that dilated

cardiomyopathy, which enlarges the

heart, left him in pain

and struggling to

breathe.

After waiting

six months for a

transplant, he

received the

heart of Keira

Ball, nine, who

tragically died in 2017. Max, of

Winsford, Cheshire, said he felt sad

for Keira’s parents Joe and Loanna.

He added: “But I will make the

most of my life... enjoying every

minute. Keira will be with me.”

The families backed the Mirror’s

crusade for more organ donors.

Max and Keira’s Law, introducing

an opt-out system, starts in 2020.

DONOR Keira Ball

hair apart and turned her skin ashen.

The first time I saw her on the street

after her transplant, she looked so

much better I didn’t recognise her.”

Six years after being diagnosed with

kidney failure, Ingrid had to quit her

job because the condition and dialysis

left her too exhausted to work.

Ingrid, 54, said: “Your whole life

revolves around dialysis. It takes more

than a day to recover. Just as you start

to feel a little better, you have to go

back to hospital.” She got her trans-

plant in 2015, a wait of nearly 10 years.

Primrose says finding a donor after

just six months was a huge shock.

She added: “They told me it was a

kidney from a 20-year-old. My heart

sank. My first thought was a 20-year-

old had died so I could live. Of course,

it isn’t like that.” She added: “I’m no

longer ill in hospital every month, I

don’t have to go back to bed after

breakfast because I’m so exhausted

and it saved me from going on dialysis.”

But the family’s ordeal is not over.

Primrose’s son Adam, 20, has been

diagnosed with the disease and will

need a transplant when his organs fail.

Primrose is raising awareness of

organ donation, particularly among

ethnic minorities. People from these

communities are more likely to need a

transplant, but are less likely to donate,

due to cultural and religious taboos.

■ Organ Donation Week runs until

Sunday. For information about organ

donation visit nhsbt.nhs.uk.

[email protected]

@DailyMirror

INGRID

NAOMI

PRIMROSE

TRIUMPHS OF ORGAN DONATION

HOPE Primrose

in 2018 with

godson Jaisiah

SUPPORT Ingrid and grandkids before her op

SHOULDER TO

SHOULDER

Primrose with her

son, mum & sister

Had new kidney four years ago

15 years after transplant

She had transplant last year