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鈥業鈥檒l do what it takes to make my double hand transplant work鈥�

8 February 2019

Nearly a month on from her double hand transplant, 47-year-old single mum Corinne Hutton has made it her mission to “make these hands work” — for the sake of the donor family as much as for herself.

Businesswoman Corinne Hutton fell ill in 2013 with acute pneumonia and sepsis. Surgeons were forced to amputate both her hands and her legs below the knee.

Since then, she’s had over a dozen false alarms about the potential of a rarely performed double hand transplant, only to be disappointed at the last moment. She had all but given up hope of ever holding her son Rory’s hand again.

Eventually, however, Corinne received the call.

Corrine Hutton

Kaye talks with the first woman in Scotland to receive a double hand transplant

“I was completely ill-prepared,” Corinne told Mornings with Kaye Adams. “I had nothing packed”.

I MUST make these [new hands] work.

At 8pm one evening, Corinne learned that surgeons had found a viable match for her. She was transported from Glasgow to Leeds and, a little over 29 hours later, she had two new hands having lived for five years with none. Now recovering, she doesn’t take her new opportunity lightly.

“I have to do what I’m supposed to do. I’m supposed to rest up. I’m supposed to not do much — I’m not very good at that at all! But I’m learning to say no and keep people at bay. I’ve got no immune system at all, so it’s vital that I don’t go near people with infections. I need to get good at that; it’s not my natural position.

“One thing I’m absolutely certain of: I’m not going back to donor family to tell them I’ve failed because I was silly and I did something stupid. That’s in the back of my mind the whole time. I must make these work.”