I'm talking about donating a kidney to my husband and I did!!

Operations were performed in October 2005 and Ian is doing great. Plenty of time now to do up our 1950s home since Ians employer - COLOPLAST - threw him out whilst he was recovering from the transplant - c'est la vie - at least Ian now has a life and we're fighting back through the courts.

COLOPLAST are a medical supplies company with the NHS - they state that they contribute to a better quality of life!! Below is a statement from their website............ This is all it is, just a statement to attract new customers ........ as I say, Coloplast threw Ian out whilst he was recovering from a kidney transplant, they threw him out in June 2006 even though Coloplasts' health insurance company (Unum Provident - BUPA) had paid Coloplast, Ians wages until the end of October 2006. Unum Provident were going to help Ian back to work when he was fit enough- Coloplast kept Ians wages, Ian did not receive them!!!! ...... read the statement below!

      As individuals and as an organisation we:

Not for one of their employees - Leicester General and the renal transplant team did that (and one of my kidneys who we refer to as 'Sidney') - look COLOPLAST up and be very surprised -  www.coloplast.co.uk  one click and you'll be there!

We have been on  'This Morning' and Radio 4 promoting Living Kidney Donation and appeared many times in the national press. Are now being filmed for a documentary about Living Kidney Donation and the impact that this has had on our lives - 'our' being Ian and I and our two daughters.

Follow the link below and you can hear the Radio 4 piece:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/01/2006_47_wed.shtml 

We have a 'letter' sent to Ian, whilst he was at home in End Stage Renal Failure - this letter states that Ian has to stay at work, in the evenings, until he is told that he can go home!!!

NO 'DUTY OF CARE' 'SHOWN!!

Coloplast did not; at any stage of Ian's very serious illness, show him any Duty of Care - the opposite in fact!!

The above mentioned letter states 'Try leaving before you are told you can go home and you will be disciplined'.......... At the time of this letter being sent, our two daughters were 16 years and 18 years old - they had a father who was very seriously ill and who could not commit to supporting them in any way after they had finished school - and there is a problem with the younger generation?? Companies like COLOPLAST are the reason why we have a problem with our younger generation - the younger generation are not made to feel as though they matter!  Our daughters' had me; although it would of been lovely to have a family together, as support. Elizabeth has finished University, Emily is off to University - they have both learnt a valuable lesson - be very careful who you work for!! 

This 'letter' is in our posession -  How could any company send such a letter to an employee who is seriously ill??  One that did not support one of their employees when they were seriously ill and did not show a 'DUTY OF CARE' to that person - COLOPLAST - that's who!!