DAD-OF-THREE Masood Ahmed is desperate to get his life back to normal.

The 43-year-old kidney patient, of Baring Avenue, Thornbury, goes to St Luke's Hospital three times a week for dialysis and is too ill to work.

He has had to give up his job at a petrol station and said life is one-long battle while he waits for his second kidney transplant in a little over eight years.

A heart attack caused his first kidney transplant to fail in 2014 after seven years of respite and he had to be temporarily taken off the waiting list.

But doctors are now hopeful his cardiac problems are on the mend and Mr Ahmed hopes to be well enough to go back on it next month.

"I feel tired a lot of the time and struggle to do things that other people my age would take for granted. Living like this and having to go for dialysis is not easy but it keeps me well enough until a new kidney arrives. I hope it will come soon.

"It's a battle for me. I want to be well again and have a normal life for me and my family.

"I talk to people whenever I can asking them to think about organ donation. I hope at least some of them will register because of my story."