– I went from being incredibly poor to be really fresh. It is strange. You wake up after the operation and have it so much better.
How to tell 46-year-old prince Daniel – married Sweden’s crown princess Victoria to ’Nyhetsmorgon’ on Swedish TV4 about the kidney transplant, he got ten years ago, writes the Swedish Damtidning.
the Donor was his father, Olle Westling. the
Prince Daniel feel today perfectly healthy. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
– I am him forever grateful. I got jo a new life that day, says the prince, who must take medications the rest of life. However, it is not something that affects his everyday life, says he and tells that the weeks leading up to the transplant, he was in dialysis and in the hospital several times a week, was some of the hardest in his life.
– For me it was just a short period of time, but think of it for the other stands on for several years, he says in the candid interview, where he tells why it is so important to join donorregistret.
– kidney disease sneaks into one, so you don’t really feel that you are sick – until you are really sick. When I got the new kidney, it was as if all the toxins, that had accumulated in the body, just disappeared. With a was the blood and the entire body clean again.
85 percent of swedes in favour of organ donation, but far fewer have signed up for the register.
– But it’s a part of an important social contract that one must do what one can. The who do not get a body, becomes incredibly frustrated and anxiety. Should we, who in all ways is so rich a country, not be right at the top, when it is about that register, he asks.
In the interview, he gets asked for his thoughts on the future – among other things, whether he is afraid that the kidney fail.
– I’m actually not so worried. It happens at a time, so I’ll have to deal with it. I have both friends and family members who are willing to donate a new kidney, he says.
