Sunday, March 16, 2008

Woman claims kidney transplant has changed her personality

Cheryl Johnson has switched off the soaps and ditched the lowbrow novels.

These days, she prefers to watch documentaries on Egyptology or spend her time reading Jane Austen and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

The 37-year-old mother of one says her personality has been transformed since she had a kidney transplant.



She claims that as well as giving her a new lease of life, the new organ has made her tastes more highbrow.

Miss Johnson believes she has picked up characteristics from her donor. "My brainpower has definitely been boosted since having the kidney transplant," she said.

"I was telling my mum all about Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment after I had read it and she thought I had gone mad. I just find it much more interesting than the types of books I used to read. I don't know why I want to read these types of books now - I just suddenly got the urge."

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