The mother of a teenager with a rare kidney disease, who was forced to go to court to secure him a life-saving transplant, has revealed that he has had the operation it has been a success.
William Verden, 17, was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease called Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis in December 2019. He was being kept alive through dialysis, but his family were sadly told that he only had 12 months at most to live before the treatment would stop working. It was advised that he would need a kidney transplant to live.
