Kidney patient battles on while waiting for a transplant
Nineteen year-old Neil Robinson was born with kidney failure and has been on dialysis since he was just two. Determined to live life to the full, he has been waiting for a kidney transplant all his life but meanwhile has to have dialysis in hospital three times a week.
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Organ donor gives life to many others
Philip Traher had always been interested in medical television programmes, and he knew that his parents believed in organ donation.
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Teenaged bone marrow donor saves a life
Hamzah Khaled, 20, has been a regular blood donor ever since he saw a presentation about it at school. It was at his fourth donor session, held at his school, that he decided to join the British Bone Marrow Registry.
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Young girl gets a heart transplant just in time
Sally Slater had a heart transplant when she was just six years old. Before then, she had become ill with a virus and rapidly got worse. Her mum Bridget took Sally to hospital where she was diagnosed with the virus Coxsackie B which is similar to the bacterial form of meningitis, and was affecting Sally's heart muscles.
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Blood donations enable student to live her life
Awele Nwosu-Akeh, 17, was diagnosed with sickle cell anaemia when she was ten. She has been in hospital many times but is determined not to let it affect her life, despite the challenges it presents.
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Baby saved by bone marrow donation
18-month-old Olivia was a normal, happy child, who loved to play with the family's golden retriever and go to playgroup with her mother Karen. But almost overnight she changed.
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Tissue donation means sportsman can play again
What's the difference between living, and loving life?
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Cornea recipient is so grateful to see clearly
Retired engineer Ambrose Field was amazed at the difference cornea transplants made to his life.
"The transformation was remarkable," says Ambrose, "I sat in the garden and not only could I see the flowers more clearly, I could even count the petals."
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