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.
One transplant surgeon said: “We are looking at a game changer in organ storage and transplantation.”
Traditionally, donor livers are stored in an ice box to be transported to the patient – but they can only survive a maximum of 12 hours in ice with high tissue damage risk.
The OrganOx maintains livers at normal body temperature and delivers oxygenated blood, medications and nutrients, keeping them in good condition for 24 hours.
In that time it can accurately test the function of a liver to assess its viability for transplant rather than relying on a surgeon’s visual examination.
