By bizn_fun 
“I’m finally back in the land of the living”.
A week after we were told Kim was in a bad condition, she sends us a voice note.
“I don’t know if you’ve heard but I had a bit of a near one with death again.
“Gave them all a massive fright.”
We next see Kim in the intensive care unit, two weeks after her surgery.
She had two hands transplanted but her blood pressure plummeted, and doctors could only save the left hand.
Kim exercises her new hand
Kim exercises her new hand
“Life is always more important than limb and we had to accept she would probably lose that right hand, which is hugely disappointing for her, for us, and for the donor family,” says Professor Kay.
Kim can already move her new hand, and it is almost unbelievable to see.
She now has a complete stranger’s hand, thanks to the decision their family made as they died.
Their loved one’s limb now lives on.
“As far as I’m concerned it’s the most precious gift I’ve ever received in my life and I can’t thank that donor’s family enough,” says Kim.
Kim was right-handed before but is now learning to adjust.
“I’m now going to be a leftie and not a rightie! It’s going to be different but I don’t care if my writing’s scruffy. It’ll get neater, I’ll practice it.”
A few weeks later Kim leaves hospital and arrives home.
Her hand is strapped to a splint, but she removes it to reveal her new hand.
“It just seems the perfect size and colour. I love it, it’s mine.
“Just seeing fingers moving, it’s unreal. And the nails have grown.
“I just can’t stop looking at it.
“And it’s lovely when I take it out and do my exercises and I see it moving. And I’m like, ah, that’s my hand.”
Kim’s recovery includes daily exercises developed with physiotherapists.