In 1992, Sehnaz Hanslot was told she only had one month to live.

Over thirty years later, the artist has defied her doctors – but at a steep price.

She has spent over 32,000 hours chained to a brutal dialysis machine which painstakingly pumps blood out of her body and cleanses it.

Sehnaz has waited 15 years for a life-saving kidney, but like many from ethnic minority backgrounds, her chances of a match are limited by a shortage of organ donors from her community. She told Metro: ‘Dialysis is absolute hell. It’s an exhaustion that I cannot compare it to anything in life to be able to tell you what that feels like.

‘I don’t really have the words to convey what it would mean to get a donated kidney. I would have have my life back.’

Sehnaz is now calling for ethnic minorities to call for

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