A woman who spent "years" on a kidney waiting list found her saviour by total coincidence on a Welsh beach. Lucy Humphrey, 44, from Caerphilly, had been living with lupus since the year 2000 and in 2017 was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure, knowing she would need a kidney donor to have certainty over how long she would live.
Lucy and her partner Cenydd Owen had hoped to take their dogs away on campervan holidays but had to cancel their plans as Lucy couldn't be away for more than a couple of nights due to her regular dialysis treatments. As a compromise, the couple took their dogs to Cold Knap Beach in Barry and set up a barbecue.
But one of their two Dobermans, named Indie, was on a mission. Indie kept going over to another campervan, where a woman was sitting and crocheting. "Indie went over like three times, back and forward to her," Lucy explained.
