This blog has been created to give advice to those who are thinking of donating.  The author donated a kidney in late August 2013 and would now like to give a helping hand to others going through the same process.

All the information given here is from the perspective of someone who underwent a left donor nephrectomy in an NHS hospital in the UK.

The information in the headers at the top of this page should be followed from left to right as this was the sequence of the process.