JUDY McEwan last night thanked her mother for giving her a second chance at life.
The 27-year-old university graduate hopes she will realise her dream of becoming a teacher after she received a new kidney transplanted from her mother, Rhoda McEwan, 42.
Doctors said Miss McEwan, from Aughton near Ormskirk, put her on dialysis last year after a nine-year battle with kidney disease.
Speaking from the family home in Cole Crescent last night, Miss McEwan said: "It's amazing what my mum has been through for me.
"I am so grateful to her."
She was diagnosed with inflammation of the kidneys three days after she arrived to start a degree course at Lancaster University.
She told the Daily Post: "It made it very difficult to study, because it makes you very tired."
Miss McEwan gained a 2.2 in geography, but was forced to return home to live with her parents and brother Laurie, 23, after her condition worsened.
Mother and daughter were admitted to Manchester Royal Infirmary four weeks ago, where doctors carried out the surgery.
Last night, Mrs McEwan said: "It was scary for me, but you just know what you have to do in situations like this."
Miss McEwan now hopes to start a teaching course at Edge Hill College, Ormskirk if doctors say she is well enough.
