A Saltcoats woman has spoken out about her battle with organ failure to promote the importance of donations.

Cat Reid, 29, was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease when she was two.

She received her first liver transplant aged 17 but after her body rejected it she needed another when she was 21.

The former carer has spoken of her gratitude to both her donors and their families for saving her life.

Cat is encouraging people to join the NHS Organ Donor Register and share their decision as part of their the We Need Everybody campaign.

She said: "I think of my donor as a guardian angel. When you have liver or organ failure, when you got to bed at night, you don't know if you are wakening up in the morning.

"When you get a driver's licence you are now asked but it doesn't matter if you go online and tick that wee box or go online and register because at the end of the day you are not there to physically say 'you can take my organs'.

"It has to be your family, so your family have to know that's your wishes."