Son selflessly gives up university dream to donate kidney to his father

Twenty five-year-old Darren Martin can forget about the Christmas shopping this year as he has already given his father the best present he could ever receive, and it wasn’t even his birthday.

Son selflessly gives up university dream to donate kidney to his father

Young Darren has turned down a university place in Austria where he could pursue a Masters in German so he could donate one of his kidneys to his father Liam who was suffering from kidney failure.

While running the home farm, Liam was also on home dialysis for 10 hours a night and it was a real struggle for him. Then things got even worse when Liam picked up a bad infection and he had to switch to hospital dialysis.

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