28-07-2025
‘I've got my life back': how kidney donation transformed a family
Rachel Bennett calls her kidney 'Emma', in tribute to her sister who donated it so she could reclaim her life after kidney disease.
Their father, Steve Cornell, says he has been 're-abled' — returned to where he was before kidney failure — thanks to his wife, Stella, donating one of her kidneys to him.
The family from Sheffield have a deeper connection than most.
Steve, 69, and Rachel, 41, have the same genetic condition and they recently discovered Rachel's eight-year-old daughter, Zoe, has it too.
Kidney disease might be in the family, but so too was the way back to a normal life.
In 2008 Stella, 64, donated one of her kidneys to her husband and in 2020 Emma Mottram, 45, did the same for her sister.
