A transplant patient has finally received the life-saving gift of a kidney - after 30 YEARS on the waiting list.<br /><br />David Dawson, 52, said he feels like he has "won the lottery" and is looking forward to enjoying a beer following the successful organ transplant earlier this month.<br /><br />The former jeweller had resigned himself to a lifetime of dialysis treatment after being stuck on the waiting list since a failed transplant in 1984, when he was 22.<br /><br />And he thought he had been victim of a prank when he received a 4am phone call on June 30 to say a suitable donor had been found.<br /><br />Within 12 hours he was on the operating table at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth (QE)Hospital to receive the vital gift of life he had been waiting over 10,000 days for.<br /><br />David was released from hospital on July 10 putting to an end three decades of having to endure dialysis treatment three times week.<br /><br />His wait is one of the longest ever for an organ on the NHS - and is 10 times that of the average three year waiting time in the UK.<br /><br />Yesterday (Wed) David, from Milton, in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs., said he is now looking forward to enjoying the simple things in life - such as a coffee, bananas and a pint of lager.
