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    For any of you who are contemplating donating a kidney to a loved one, I can only encourage you to do it. Making the decision to donate a kidney to a friend in end-stage renal failure wasn't easy, but I have never regretted it. The transplant was four years ago and my friend is doing really… Heart Image
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    I still can't believe six years has gone by so fast! It only feels like yesterday that Dad was fighting for his life in hospital, hooked onto a dialysis machine. It isn't something you want to hear at age 16 that 'your father has kidney failure'. I didn't even know what that meant! All I could… Karla
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    When I lost my little sister during DonateLife Week, I was privileged to see how the donor team worked silently behind the scenes. I was lucky to be there when it was announced that there was a recipient for her liver, and then later her lungs had also found a new home. The joy in that… Heart Image
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    My husband passed away in an accident nine years ago. During his life he helped countless people and in dying he magnanimously donated his healthy organs to others desperately in need and gave seven people a second chance to live healthy, happy lives with bright futures. The following is a… Heart Image
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    My story began 12 years ago, when I first fell ill. I was told that I had an incurable and rare liver disease. Four years later, I was faced with the inevitable fact that I needed a liver transplant, as my own organ was failing fast. I was just a few months short of my 50th birthday. I received… Karen
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    Twenty years ago I faced a sudden unexpected crisis. I had enjoyed a very interesting and varied life during a career with the Australian Diplomatic Service, most recently as head of our Consulate-General in Noumea. I was in good health and happily married with two teenage sons. I travelled to… Heart Image
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    I had been ill since birth and treated for asthma when, at the age of 17, I suffered a stroke and was admitted to hospital for tests. The stroke turned out to be a blessing in disguise as doctors found that I was not asthmatic but had been born with a hole in the heart which had led to… Roxanne
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    When she was around 46, my mother was told that she was very ill and required a lung transplant. Over the next three years, she deteriorated substantially. Very early one morning, the hospital called advising us that a transplant was possible and she had to get to the hospital. We were elated… Felicity
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    'We are going to the beach tomorrow, I can't wait - I'm dying for a swim ...' She died the next day whilst swimming in the sea at Glenelg, South Australia. It has been the most tragic and desperate time of my life, but through her death she gave me three gifts. My last conversation with Mum… Three gifts
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    Lethorieo, affectionately known as Theo by mum Renay, dad Ryan and younger sisters Marci and Ali, was an aspiring scientist at heart. Far beyond his 8 years on planet Earth, he was fascinated by all things interstellar and its many mysteries.  Theo had an insatiable thirst for knowledge… A young boy with blonde hair and blue/green eyes smiles at the camera against a backdrop of greenery.
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