Former Hatfield lorry driver in appeal for kidney donor

Craig Bould with his wife, Nicola, and their dog Reggie

A former lorry driver has issued an appeal on social media to find a kidney donor, saying he just wants "to go back to my life".

Craig Bould, 41, from Hatfield, near Doncaster, was diagnosed with stage-five kidney disease in 2016.

He later underwent transplant surgery but said his body had now begun to reject the organ.

He said he now spends eight hours a day hooked up to a dialysis machine and had been forced to give up his job.

"I used to live in my lorry five days a week [but] dialysis in a lorry just isn't possible," he told BBC Radio Sheffield.

"It's not a life really, you can't do anything. I just want to go back to my life, back to work, back to how I was a year ago.

"This time last year I was working on a fairly good wage, being able to do things with my kids, going out, having a life."

Mr Bould had to give up his job as a lorry driver

Mr Bould said he was first diagnosed with kidney failure in 2009 when he went to hospital suffering with chest pain.

In 2018 he had a life-saving transplant but "through no fault of my own" the organ had started to fail.

He said doctors had tried to save the transplant but neither medication nor surgical procedures had worked.

According to the NHS, the average waiting time for a kidney transplant is two to three years.