
Transplant patient asks donor’s dad to walk her down the aisle
Lisa Simkin, from Nottingham, underwent a life-saving lung transplant in 2013. Her donor was 33-year-old Rhona, who had died of a brain haemorrhage days after giving birth to her second child.
Six months after the transplant, Lisa wrote a letter to Rhona’s family “to say thank you”.
She says the family “opened their door with loving arms” and she now feels part of their family.
Rhona’s dad John even walked Lisa down the aisle at her wedding.
Lisa told Radio 5 Live she feels like she’s known them all her life: “It’s a very surreal feeling.”
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