In sickness and in HEALTH

When Sarah Beaumont’s husband needed a kidney transplant, there was no doubt in her mind about what she needed to do

WORDS: MICHELLE ROWLEY

When Sarah Beaumont arrived home excitedly to tell her husband Carl that she’d found a good minibreak deal for the coming weekend, his response wasn’t what she expected. ‘I was excited to share what I’d found, but Carl said it was likely he’d be in hospital then. I didn’t understand what was going on,’ says the 41-year-old from Wakefield, West Yorkshire. ‘He told me he needed to get to A&E at Pinderfields Hospital as quickly as possible.’ ‘We were both in a bit of a daze’ Carl, now 52, had been driving their son Remy, now 13, home from his kick-boxing class in November 2020 when the hospital had called to say he needed to come in immediately. ‘They’d told him he was in renal failure, with only 4% kidney…

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Woman's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 21-Jan-2025

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