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AMAZING GESTURE: Dan recovering inMARRIED: Dan and KF
IVE years after their divorce,
Dan Pyatt and his ex-wife Kelly
Hope had the most important
disagreement of their lives. As he
lay in his bed at Guy’s Hospital,
with his kidneys failing and no
donor after 12 months on the waiting list,
she told him: “I’m going to get tested
for a transplant.”
“He said to me, ‘I can’t ask you to do
that’,” remembers Kelly. “But I told him,
‘It’s not up to you, it’s my decision. I know
what the risks are and I’m doing it’.
“Even though we weren’t together any
more, I wasn’t prepared to let my children
be without a father. Besides, Dan is only- He’s got so much more life to lead.”
Dan and Kelly have known each other
since they started at Walworth secondary
school in London and began dating
when they were 18.
They married on November 3, 2007, 13
years to the day after their first date, but
less than a year later they were given the
devastating news that Dan had an
aggressive type of kidney disease.
Expecting their second daughter, the
pair were warned that in around a decade
he would need a kidney transplant.
“There was no history of kidney
problems in Dan’s family, he was just
unlucky,” says Kelly, 43. “He used to feel
constantly tired, he had flu-like symptoms
and always had headaches, but he’s a
London taxi driver so at first we put it
down to overworking.
“It wasn’t until we went
away for a weekend to
Bournemouth in
March 2008, when I
was pregnant, that
I really started to
worry. He was so
unwell that he
couldn’t get out
of the hotel
room. He’d
taken tablets
but they made
no difference.
He wasn’t
getting any
better.”
They went to A&E
at Queen Mary’s
Hospital in Sidcup
where, noticing Dan had a
severely bloodshot eye, he was
sent to the eye clinic. A urine sample
showed a very high level of blood and he
was admitted for more tests.
“They couldn’t work out what was
wrong. They were talking about leukaemia
and we were absolutely terrified.
“Then a consultant said he thought it
might be kidney-related, so he contacted
Guy’s Hospital in London which
specialises in renal conditions. Dan was
transferred for a biopsy and diagnosed
with IgA nephropathy in both his kidneys,
a build-up of protein which causes
inflammation and damages kidney tissue.”
The couple were told there was no cure,
but Dan was given medication to protect
his kidneys and they made changes to his
diet and lifestyle. He returned regularly to
Guy’s to have his kidneys and blood
pressure monitored until, in September
2017, he was told his kidney function had
fallen to just eight per cent and he was
put on dialysis
and on a
deceased donor
waiting list.
Sadly, by
now their
marriage had
broken down
despite their
best efforts to
save it.
“There was no
one else involved.
We just weren’t
getting on any more,
even though we tried and
tried,” says Kelly. “We had
different priorities, life pressures,
work patterns – I was working as a PA at
the time and Dan was a taxi driver so we
were like ships in the night. I think
everything became too pressurised.
“We didn’t just walk away, because we’d
been together all our adult lives, but in the
end we realised we couldn’t just keep
going around in circles and it was making
the atmosphere at home horrible.
“It wasn’t healthy for the children, so
we both decided it would be best if we
separated.” Kelly stayed in the family
home in Bromley, Kent, with their
daughters Billie and Jeanie, while Dan
moved into a flat nearby.
It wasn’t always plain sailing, Kelly
admits, but they were determined not
to lose the friendship they’d had
since childhood.
“There were lots of times when it was
very difficult and it would have been easyto say, ‘We want you o
just let him see the ch
but we’ve been such g
a long time, as well as
“We had to discuss
and find a way to mak
After their divorce,
with Dan to his hospit
and to dialysis session
“He was on it three
hours a day, and it rea
relationship with the g
was no quality time an
“It was so upsetting
him becoming really u
“The consultants sta
about a transplant, buMost people are barely
on speaking terms with
former partners, let
alone willing to donate
them an organ.
DAWN COLLINSON
meets a woman who
was able to look beyond
the divorce papers
WOULD
YOUR EX
TRANSPLANT
FACTS AND FIGURES
For suitable patients,
transplantation is usually a better
treatment for end-stage kidney disease
compared to dialysis.
A transplant from a living kidney donor is
the best chance of a successful transplant.
Living kidney transplants have been performed
since 1960.
There are around 6,000 people on the
transplant waiting list, almost 5,000 of
those are waiting for a kidney.
One in three patients receive a kidney
transplant from a living donor – a relative,
friend or stranger.
In April 2018-2019, 1,020 living donor
kidney transplants were carried out.*
*Statistics from NHS Blood and
TransplantMARRIED:DananddKK