Vanessa Heaney

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Global News Podcast · The Happy Pod: Donating my kidney transformed a child's life · 22 Nov 2025 podcast

Obviously, it's a part of my body.

It's one of my organs.

And I was really curious to see where it had gone to.

So when they reached out and I was able to see that the little boy was really healthy and that my kidney had started working for him and that it had really changed his life.

I was really delighted and of course I wrote back to them and we talked back and forward and then that's when the idea of meeting up came about.

It was very emotional.

I was crying, his mum was crying and I think he was a little bit bewildered by all the emotion but it was just lovely to see him so happy and healthy and it was lovely to see how much of an impact and a difference it made for their life and for them.

It was a little bit strange.

Myself and my partner were both saying that it was strange to think that part of me is inside that little boy.

He was just sitting playing with his toys.

And it was just strange to think that my kidney is inside him.

But yeah, it was wonderful to see him just living a normal life.

And he doesn't appear any different from any other little... He's six now.

Any other six-year-old boy.

He loves dinosaurs and computer games.

Yeah, to be honest with you, it has had such a minimal impact on my life compared to the huge impact that it's had on his life and his family's life.

Yes, there was a few weeks of downtime after the operation, but my life has gone back to normal completely.

I have no limitations on my life whatsoever now, and he gets to live a normal life which he didn't have before.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

I plan to be there for every birthday going forward and his family have actually invited me to a family wedding next year as well.

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