{"id":297854,"date":"2023-12-12T18:03:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T18:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=297854"},"modified":"2023-12-12T18:03:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T18:03:12","slug":"kieron-dyer-makes-first-tv-appearance-since-liver-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/kieron-dyer-makes-first-tv-appearance-since-liver-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Kieron Dyer makes first TV appearance since liver transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Kieron Dyer makes first appearance back on Sky Sports after he revealed to Mail Sport the &#8216;miracle&#8217; liver transplant which saved his life<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Kieron Dyer makes first appearance on Sky Sports since miracle liver transplant\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dyer spoke exclusively to Mail Sport\u00a0last month about his life-saving ordeal\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0IAN LADYMAN reveals the GREATEST weapon a manager has against a journalist &#8211; Listen to It&#8217;s All Kicking Off<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kieron Dyer has made his first appearance on <span>Sky Sports<\/span> since revealing his ordeal over a liver transplant that saved his life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former England international spoke exclusively to Mail Sport last month where he revealed he was dying down to a rare liver disease before a miracle transplant saved his life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a career that began at Ipswich in 1996, Dyer made 419 senior appearances for the Tractor Boys as well as Newcastle, West Ham, QPR and Middlesbrough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He retired from playing in 2013 and later went into coaching as well as taking part in a number of reality TV shows, but in an emotional interview, he opened up to Mail Sport about how his liver was being ravaged by a rare disease, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and how he almost run out of time before a donor was found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friends thought that Dyer would be dead before there was a chance of a transplant, but even though he was \u2018as yellow as Bart Simpson\u2019, Dyer did not give up hope and a donor was found in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/10\/23\/78800801-12848255-image-a-48_1702250812217.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kieron Dyer made his first Sky Sports appearance since revealing his life-saving liver donation<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/10\/23\/78285271-12848255-Kieron_Dyer_was_ill_thin_and_broken_two_days_prior_to_his_liver_-a-44_1702249919096.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kieron Dyer was ill, thin and broken two days prior to his liver transplant (left), but there was a marked difference two days after the operation (right)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/10\/23\/78285221-12848255-Dyer_relied_on_the_love_of_his_wife_Holly_right_and_his_family_a-a-45_1702249934417.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dyer relied on the love of his wife, Holly (right) and his family as he awaited the chance to have a transplant as he battled with the rare disease primary sclerosing cholangitis<\/p>\n<p>A nine-hour operation followed and despite being in so much pain he asked the doctors to let him go, the 44-year-old made such a good recovery he was allowed to go home three weeks later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, back home and giving his first interview over the life-changing ordeal, Dyer&#8217;s immediate thoughts were with where his life-saving liver came from.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The fact that someone else died so that I might live is something I still can\u2019t process.&#8217; Dyer said as he wiped tears during his revelations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I haven\u2019t spoken about it until now because it is such an overwhelming thought. Maybe 99% of the population only gets one chance of life and I have been given two.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The reason I have been given two chances is because someone died. To have that responsibility and burden to do that person justice is\u2026I still can\u2019t come to terms with it. There are days where I just cry. I am happy. I am not sad. It is just such a powerful thought that someone had to die.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/10\/23\/78800803-12848255-image-a-49_1702250817583.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dyer told the panel of his ordeal and how tough the process of waiting for a liver was on him\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/10\/23\/78285279-12848255-Dyer_earned_33_caps_for_England_but_some_feel_he_did_not_achieve-a-47_1702250773690.jpg\" height=\"541\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dyer earned 33 caps for England, but some feel he did not achieve his full potential\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since that meeting Dyer has made his first TV appearance, as part of the Soccer Sunday panel alongside Lee Hendrie and Clinton Morrison, where he once again shared those same thoughts on the person who&#8217;s liver he was given.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also told the panel of the process he had to go through in waiting for a liver and the toll it took on him mentally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dyer said: &#8216;Mentally it was so demanding, the amount of false alarms you have where you think you have a liver, but it&#8217;s either too big or too fatty or it&#8217;s been damaged. So you have to go through the whole process again, so mentally it&#8217;s really challenging.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When I first got diagnosed with the disease they said it would take three to six months for me to get a liver. Then you have to stay within an hour of the hospital, you can&#8217;t leave, you&#8217;ve got to have your phone on you at all times. Because if you miss the phone call, you miss the liver. It&#8217;s waiting game and your life gets put on hold, but it&#8217;s worth it in the end.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the segment, Dyer also described the hallucinations he had due to the failure of his liver and how despite being told it would take months to find him a donor, the reality was it took over four years before the transplant could happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12848255\/Kieron-Dyer-makes-appearance-Sky-Sports-revealed-Mail-Sport-miracle-liver-transplant-saved-life.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Kieron Dyer makes first appearance back on Sky Sports after he revealed to Mail Sport the &#8216;miracle&#8217; liver transplant which saved his life Kieron Dyer <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/kieron-dyer-makes-first-tv-appearance-since-liver-transplant\/\" title=\"Kieron Dyer makes first TV appearance since liver transplant\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kieron Dyer makes first TV appearance since liver transplant - Sportstoft<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/kieron-dyer-makes-first-tv-appearance-since-liver-transplant\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kieron Dyer makes first TV appearance since liver transplant - Sportstoft\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kieron Dyer makes first appearance back on Sky Sports after he revealed to Mail Sport the &#8216;miracle&#8217; 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