[MUSIC] I am Mrs. Mayekiso. And 51 year woman, married woman. I'm from town, Eastern Cape. >> How long have you had kidney failure? >> I've had it for five years. >> Five years, what happens when you're on hemodialysis? >> When I was hemodialysis, there we are dialyzed by machine, sucking blood to and from. >> Okay, how often do you have to do that? >> I have to take three days a week. >> For how many hours? >> For four hours. >> Four hours, okay. And what did you do before you got sick? >> At 2008, I was a domestic worker. >> Do you feel strong enough that you could go back to work now? >> Yes. >> [LAUGH] >> I feel strong enough, I think I could find work. I can. >> Cool, what time was it and where were you when you got the phone call? >> It was about 7 o'clock on Saturday morning. Then I was going to a funeral outside our location, then I received this call saying I must quickly go back to the hospital. The hospital needs me, I am needed at Cape Town for a transplant. >> How did you feel? >> I was so shocked. So that the driver and the car that was driving. Just look me, look with me back and he was sad thinking that maybe l received maybe somebody in charge of my family or my child is sick, whatever, maybe something bad happened to me. The way I was so shocked but after that, I smile and say, please, stop the car when you can stop, I'm go back home because I have to go to Cape Town now for transplant. But this man doesn't know nothing about transplant but I just explained because I was very happy. >> Have you ever been in a plane before? >> No. >> First flight. >> My first plane trip. I just sleep in the plane, now just look how this is going to move in the sky. But I see nothing. I see all the skies, all the guys. Someone's reading books. Someone's sleeping. But I didn't do that. It was my first time. I want to see every inches that is happening. >> What time did you go in for your operation? >> It was I think 8 minutes to 12. >> At midnight? >> At midnight. >> Okay. Real cool. And then what does it feel like waking up afterwards? >> Waking up, I was very happy, but at that first, it was painful so l can feel there's something that happened but l tell myself that is going to pass as long as l resolve something. This kidney that I was always looking for. >> What are your plans for the future? >> Wow, my plans, I've got a great plans, l don't know where to start. [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] >> [INAUDIBLE] yeah, I'm so excited. >> What do you think about the family that donated the organs to you? >> That family. What can I say? I'm so thankful to that family. I'm so thankful, the thing that they do it to me, even my child, even my family, no one in my family didn't wish to do that, because they were scared. But that family, I don't know that family, they don't know me, but they give me one of their family part. [INAUDIBLE] keep them. Those who are left, and praise them. >> Cool, about how much people know about transplants, and what you think should happen? >> At that time, I didn't answer them. I didn't have ways to explain what is transplant. I just tell them, once I was sick, so I'm going to get a new kidney, because I know they don't know about transplant. What is transplant. >> How do you think we can get better, to get more people to say yes to organ donation? >> Or to organ donation, I think it can be with those who do have donate. I think we can be given chances to go where there is a people maybe at the clinic, so talk about transplant. Talk about donors, and talk about even our illness before so that some of the people they know, you were sick in front of them. So now they see your life changes and tell them this part, this organ, I didn't get in my family so is wise to somebody, go to the clinic and check for everything. Maybe heart disease, high blood pressure, if she, is he's all right and if he can or she, she can sign something to help another people. There's nothing wrong. [MUSIC]