Last September, I was with my brother in North London, and he had an optician’s appointment. And from there he was sent to Moorgate hospital and from there to the Royal Free, where within 24 hours we found out he had a chronic kidney disease. And this is my brother who’s 27 years old, he plays squash before work [laughs], works full-time, plays football afterwards and goes for a few drinks with his friends.

So as you can imagine it was a huge, huge shock to all of us. From that moment on our kind of lives all turned upside-down, really – thinking ‘Oh gosh what’s going to happen to him?’ and ‘Is he going to be OK?’ I never even knew that anyone could be a live donor… [very emotional] … and it was just really scary going through all the tests, hoping that you can match, and make him better as quickly as possible.

The fear of your little brother being ill, and then maybe having to go on dialysis at the age of 27 is horrendous. So when I found out that I was a match, it was the best news I’ve had in my life [very emotional]. And that I could hopefully change his life and he can go on and carry on as normal like a 27-year-old boy should be doing in London, enjoying life. And travelling the world, which he loves to do. So all is good because I’m now a match. And it was a long process because I had to go through lots of tests. And 6 months later, here we are the day before the operation, and hopefully both of our lives will change and he’ll just crack on and start enjoying life again.

My fear about the operation tomorrow … it’s nothing really to do with the operation on me, it’s the fear that it might not work. Or, you know, the kidney goes dormant, as they say, or – just want it to work and go back to normal as soon as possible.