‘I really needed the kidney transplant and I’m so lucky that I got one’

From the moment she was born, Courtney Kealy had to have a kidney transplant. She was born with kidney dysplasia, a condition most affected babies do not survive.

Tube-fed and hooked up to machines, Courtney spent the first few years of her life on dialysis, in and out of hospital, and waiting for a suitable donor.

“I would be on medication in the morning and the night time and I was fed through a tube in my nose because I found eating difficult. I had a few tubes in my stomach connected to machines. It was very difficult.”