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    “A family has saved my life – I just wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for them.”  Stephanie had been living with idiopathic primary pulmonary hypertension (IPAH), causing high blood pressure in arteries in her lungs and heart, before receiving a lifesaving double lung transplant.  In… A picture of Stehanie
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    At birth, I was premature, breach, unable to pass urine and unable to breathe without assistance. I had a condition known as Posterior Urethral Valves. The doctors gave my parents two choices; one was to turn off the life support and let me die and the other was an operation that might prolong my… Steph
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    Steve was born with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and was always unwell. He remembers surgical procedures and many visits to gastroenterologists to try to gain weight. Steve was on the waitlist for a liver transplant for 5 months before his family got the life-saving call. He was only 6… A man and woman pose with their two young boys in front of a large waterfall on a sunny day. The family is smiling and wearing swimmers.
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    Story of encouragement My son Stewart was tragically killed in a freak motor bike accident. I still find it hard to believe that he is gone and that I just can't wake up from this nightmare. Stewart was like an angel that shone a light on this dark world. He lived to be a good servant of… Stewart
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    1995 will forever remain as the most important year of my life. Whilst it was also the last time my beloved Carlton held the AFL Premiership Cup, it was that year,  I was able to afford my wife the greatest gift of all – a new kidney. From an unfairly tender age, my wife Sue suffered… Sue
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    “It’s not part of the handbook. When you decide to have kids, you think life will be easy, happy and normal. When this diagnosis came through, we were learning on the job. What’s this condition? What does it all mean?”  At 10 weeks old, Sunny was diagnosed with biliary atresia, a rare… Sunny pictured in front of a pink backdrop
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    I was 18 years old when I was told I had renal failure. Although I had never heard of it before it did not take me long to experience it. I was putting on weight so I went to Weight Watchers. I stuck to the diet but every week my weight was going up not down. My weight rose to 72kg and my legs… Heart Image
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    I was introduced to kidney disease at the age of 15 when my father died of it. Subsequently, 4 family members were diagnosed, with 2 of us fortunate enough to have had transplants. The day I was told I had kidney disease I drove around aimlessly thinking the sky had fallen.Twenty odd years after… Suzette
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    T' is for thank you, time, treatment, transplant and trams ... trams? Forget Freud, I'm thinking Stevie Wonder, rhythm and lyrics to Higher Ground. I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then ... gonna keep on tryin' ... 'til I reach my highest ground. Skirting along Hobart's silvery… T is for
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    I was 28 years old and lived a spontaneous outgoing lifestyle. I worked hard and enjoyed socialising. I was soon diagnosed with kidney failure due to an unfortunate case of extreme food poisoning. After feeling unwell over a few days, I visited my GP and was prescribed blood pressure… Heart Image
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