A MUM who underwent a life- saving lung transplant operation has been given the all-clear — just three months after the surgery.

Natalie Kerr was given a death sentence four years ago when she was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension.

She was afraid she would not live to see her children, Brendon, aged nine, and four-year-old Isabelle, grow up.

But just as her condition was beginning to deteriorate and she was starting to lose hope, the former Royal Bolton Hospital nurse underwent a double-lung transplant.

The 30-year-old has amazed doctors with her progress and was allowed home after just three weeks — in time to spend Mother’s Day with her children.

Now, three months later, Miss Kerr has been told her transplant has been successful.

She is still taking some medication and will have to have monthly check-ups, but she no longer relies on oxygen and the number of pills she takes daily has been cut by more than two thirds.

Miss Kerr, from Adlington, says she is thankful for her new lungs every single day. To get through the first 12 weeks is great and the doctors are really pleased with me. “I’m feeling really well, just being able to breathe and do nor- mal things is fantastic.

“It’s all about the little things, like running up the stairs and going to the shops on my own,” she said.

She wants to appeal to people to join the organ donor register and help save lives, or to talk to their family and let them know they want their organs to be donated.

Miss Kerr has given a hand-made card to Wythenshawe Hospital to pass on to her donor’s family.

In it she wrote how the operation had changed her life and let Bran- don and Isabelle write their own thank you.

She said: “Brandon wrote “Thanks for saving my Mummy’s life” and then drew pictures of all the things we want to do now, like go to New York.

“I said thank you wasn’t big enough for saving my life and giv- ing me a second chance, and every day I cherish this gift and every day I think of my donor.

“When I am breathing normally it is thanks to them.”

Miss Kerr and her family are planning a holiday to Spain in July, where she hopes to teach Isabelle to swim — it will be the first time she has been swimming for more than five years.