WalesOnline - Lifestyle - Home & Garden - Green scene: Lynne Allbutt

WalesOnline - Lifestyle - Home & Garden - Green scene: Lynne Allbutt

Organ donor recipient Sara Griffiths, below, likens looking after one’s health to taking care of a garden. “The better care you take of both, the better results you get from them,” she says wisely.

But she admits she didn’t always see it like that.

“At 12 I was diagnosed with type one diabetes and told by the doctors to take care of myself and my diet. My parents made sure I was sensible but when they weren’t around I was stuffing myself with sweets with the rest of the kids,” she confesses.

“But I learned the hard way; in 1991 I was told I was suffering with renal failure and as soon as I went on dialysis I stuck to the most manic, strictest routine ever. I had to learn to take care of myself.”

She said: “As a kid I was brought up in a flat and didn’t know what a garden or fresh air was.