{"id":1673,"date":"2025-04-01T11:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2025-04-01T23:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T23:09:29","slug":"girl-9-waiting-53-months-for-kidney-transplant-just-wants-a-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/girl-9-waiting-53-months-for-kidney-transplant-just-wants-a-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 9, waiting 53 months for kidney transplant just \u2018wants a childhood\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\"Amelia\t<\/div>
Amelia has been on the list since October 2020 (Picture: Shelly Mount)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A 9-year-old girl has \u2018not had a life\u2019 while she has waited 53 months for a life-changing kidney transplant.<\/p>\n

Amelia Bourne, from Thornaby near Stockton-on-Tees, has to have 10-hour dialysis sessions every day during her five-year wait for a new kidney.<\/p>\n

Grandmum Shell Mount, 49, issued a desperate Facebook appeal<\/a> for a donor last year and still, a successful match has not been found.<\/p>\n

Amelia has nephronophthisis, a rare kidney disease that leads to kidney failure and has left her kidneys \u2018dead\u2019.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\"Girl,\t<\/div>
Amelia with grandmum Shell (Picture: Shell Mount)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a result, Amelia endures 10-hour overnight peritoneal dialysis, which involves a catheter inserted in her abdomen to remove waste and excess fluids from her body.<\/p>\n

This treatment and a \u2018shed\u2019 of 13 other medications mean Amelia suffers from \u2018high blood pressure\u2019 and \u2018really bad\u2019 bones.<\/p>\n

Shell, who is her legal guardian, told Metro<\/strong>: \u2018It is a struggle and it is really hard.<\/p>\n

\u2018There is a risk if we do not get this kidney it will bring more bone issues<\/p>\n

\u2018She just wants to be a normal child. She just wants to go on an aeroplane and have a normal life.<\/p>\n

\u2018She cannot go swimming or do school overnight trips.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\"Girl,\t<\/div>
Amelia cannot do school trips or go swimming (Picture: Shell Mount)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Amelia is one of 145 children waiting for a kidney transplant in the UK.<\/p>\n

More than 6,500 people are waiting for a kidney transplant as a whole.<\/p>\n

In 2023\/24, 418 people died while on the waiting list for an organ transplant.<\/p>\n

Shell thought her granddaughter would be saved when she found out her kidney was a perfect 1.1.1 match for Amelia.<\/p>\n

But testing revealed a hole in one of Shell\u2019s kidneys, ruling out a potential donation.<\/p>\n

\u2018I was telling them to take it and they wouldn\u2019t,\u2019 she added.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019ve had a life, but she hasn\u2019t.\u2019<\/p>\n

Amelia has been waiting on the on-call transplant list for 53 months. In that time numerous family and friends followed Shell\u2019s appeal to get tested but no others have been a match.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\"Girl,\t<\/div>
Shell put out an appeal last year but a donor has still not been found (Picture: Shell Mount)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The girl is beginning to desperately ask when she is going to get \u2018this stupid kidney\u2019, while her ill-health and dialysis routine means she is cannot go on valuable school trips.<\/p>\n

Shell said: \u2018If she gets a kidney it would just be amazing. It would be a change to the whole household.<\/p>\n

\u2018She would get the chance to live a childhood. You cannot get your childhood years back.\u2019<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Amelia is being treated for her condition at Royal Victoria Infirmary Hospital in Newcastle.<\/p>\n

Her grandmother said that while their care is \u2018outstanding\u2019 she cannot help but be frustrated at the enormous wait for a life-changing kidney.<\/p>\n

In her Facebook post in March last year, Shell said: \u2018My gorgeous granddaughter is fed up now of 6 years doing this journey.<\/p>\n

\u2018This girl just takes everything in her stride since day 1 but now she\u2019s getting fed up as she\u2019s 8 years old and shouldn\u2019t have had to wait all this time for a kidney.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\"Girl,\t<\/div>
A kidney would transform her life (Picture: Shell Mount)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018So whether you are young, old, male, female, black or white it doesn\u2019t matter any kidney will do if it\u2019s a match. I beg you please get a blood test to see if you\u2019re a match.\u2019<\/p>\n

The family are reissuing their appeal as another year has gone by without a successful donor.<\/p>\n

Anthony Clarkson, Director of Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation, at NHS Blood and Transplant said: \u2018There are not enough donated organs which sadly means some people wait years for a transplant or never receive one at all.<\/p>\n

\u2018There are thousands of people, including hundreds of children, waiting for an organ transplant in the UK right now, and most of them need a kidney transplant.<\/p>\n

\u2018We urge everyone to confirm their decision to be an organ donor on the NHS Organ Donor Register and tell their family they want to save lives after their death.\u2019<\/p>\n

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

For more stories like this, <\/strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amelia has been on the list since October 2020 (Picture: Shelly Mount) A 9-year-old girl has \u2018not had a life\u2019 while she has waited 53 months for a life-changing kidney transplant. Amelia Bourne, from Thornaby near Stockton-on-Tees, has to have 10-hour dialysis sessions every day during her five-year wait for a new kidney. Grandmum Shell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}