Nail technician Sara Joseph doesn’t consider herself brave. ‘I’m scared of just about everything’, she says. But after what she willingly put herself through this year, many would disagree.
In March, Sara flew to Turkey to undergo five hours of gruelling surgery to donate almost two-thirds of her liver to someone she had met only a handful of times.
Astonishingly, despite facing months of recovery and permanent scarring, Sara signed up to be a potential donor hours after seeing a friend’s Facebook appeal.
‘If you have the opportunity to save a life, why wouldn’t you?’ says Sara, 50, who lives in Bushey, Hertfordshire,
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