‘My father donated his kidney to save my life — and when that failed, my mother donated hers’

Hairdresser Trudy Hayes was living an extremely busy life in her early twenties. But in 2007, she began experiencing the signs of what turned out to be organ failure. “When I started to get these headaches all the time, I kind of just put them to the back burner. We were always on to the next thing, so I just took paracetamol and got on with it. I guess at the time I probably should have taken more heed, because they were the early warning signs that something wasn’t right.”