Meeya completes Ipswich Half Marathon
With support from step dad Kieron Dyer on his electric bike
My stepdad, Kieron, was diagnosed with PSC back in 2016. He lived with the condition for a number of years but was advised he would need a liver transplant, which probably wouldn’t be necessary until he was older. However, at the age of 43 he was told he would need to go on the transplant list.
In June 2023, Kieron was admitted to Addenbrooke’s hospital where he spent the next 3 months. He was told his liver was in failure and a transplant was imminent.
Finally, in September 2023 a donor was found. Family travelled to Cambridge and Kieron had psyched himself up for the operation. We waited hours for updates and eventually around 2am we found out it wasn’t the right match. This tends to happen a lot to transplant patients, which can be extremely difficult to deal with.
Following several unsuccessful donor matches, the operation was performed successfully in September of 2023. As a result of the transplant, the selfless organ donor and the amazing doctors and nurses at Addenbrooke’s hospital, Kieron has been given a second chance to live and can finally lead a normal life again!
A year later, almost to the day, I ran the Ipswich Half Marathon for PSC Support, a charity dedicated to helping patients who suffer with primary sclerosing cholangitis; a rare autoimmune liver and bile duct disease. Kieron was by my side (on his electric bike) for almost the entire half marathon and I don’t think I could have completed it without his support.
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