What do you say to the stranger who saved you life?

THE TRANSCONTINENTAL | Rania Spooner

Rachel Weaver, who recently had a life saving kidney transplant. Photo: Simon Schluter

The wait had been too long and by the time her ticket was called the young mother was slipping away.

Watching her suffer through those last years it never occurred to her two small children that one day they'd be in her shoes.

As they each neared 36, her age at death, they too would be strapped to dialysis machines facing uncertain years waiting for a life saving kidney transplant.

But unlike their mother, Rachel Weaver and her brother were both saved by the generosity of Australians they will never know.

"When I wake up in the morning I find I instinctively place my hand on my new kidney; it is comforting and makes me smile," Rachel says, about a year since the transplant. Continue reading

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