A WOMAN who underwent two life-saving organ operations is set to compete in her third Transplant Games.

In 2007 Helen Wilson, of Easthampstead, Wokingham, lost function in both her kidneys.

She was left needing five hours of kidney dialysis three times a week until her brother Steve lovingly donated one of his - now fondly known as Sidney the Kidney.

Things were looking up for the human resources worker until 2013, when her liver began to fail.

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Helen Wilson with her medal haul.

Luckily for Mrs Wilson, a organ belonging to someone signed up to the donor scheme became available in 2013. It would save her life and later become known as Lionel Liver.

Having recovered and then visited the Westfield Health British Transplant Games as a spectator in 2014, the 55 year-old took part the following year.

Now she will travel to Lanarkshire for her third games, looking to add to last year's medal haul of two golds, a silver and a bronze.

"The games are about showing how life transforming these transplants can be," Mrs Wilson explained.

"I feel incredibly lucky to have received two organ transplants and I will never forget what my brother did for me or what my donor’s family went through to enable me to receive the life-saving organ."

On July 27 Mrs Wilson will begin the first of her events, which this year include the 100m, 200m and archery.

In a bid to sharpen her pin-point accuracy and hit personal record breaking pace, she has been training with the Crowthorne Archers and receiving help from Ken Spencer, a sprint coach from Bracknell Athletics Club.

Mrs Wilson is raising money for the Todd Ward and the Intensive Treatment Unit, both within the Liver Transplant Unit at Kings College Hospital.

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