Woman inherits mum’s baking skills after getting her kidney in transplant op

A woman with no interest in baking inherited her mum’s passion for the art after getting her kidney in a transplant.

Cake fan Stephanie Morse woke from her life-saving op “obsessed” with making some herself.

And the 37-year-old says she is convinced “mum’s kidney transplanted this feeling into my brain.”

The mum-of-three, from Cwm-bran, near Newport, South Wales, said: “I had no interest in baking.

“But immediately after surgery and for weeks after all I wanted to do was make cakes like mum.

“I would draw how they’d look and write flavours to create.

“As soon as I got home from hospital I got the ingredients to make a raspberry cheesecake. I was obsessed.”

Stephanie now dons her apron and grabs her mixing bowl to bake cakes, buns and tarts at home – just like her loving mum.

Wendy, 62, from Tenby, said she was “amused” by her daughter’s new-found passion.

She added: “She’s always loved my cakes but didn’t fancy baking.”

Meanwhile, a British invention that can keep human livers “alive” outside the body ready for transplant could save 200 more lives a year.

The OrganOx has already come to the rescue of 500 patients facing death while waiting for a suitable donor.

Created by transplant experts Prof Peter Friend and Prof Constantin ­Coussios, the machine doubles the “shelf life” of a donor liver and reduces the risk of tissue damage.

It can even test whether the organ is suitable for transplant.

And it’s now in use across the country after being given the NHS green light in January.

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