Adrian Turner
I was perfectly healthy, had a silver medal at the British nationals and then few days later I felt like I just had 'flu. But then I was very sick and I started to, urinate blood, which is no fun.
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Andrew Samuel
I started on kidney dialysis a couple weeks after my daughter was born and Hannah is now nine.
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Baby Fizhan
There's never been anybody in our entire family with a heart condition like Baby Fizhan. We decided that a heart transplant was the only option.
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Beth Morris
When you find out for the second time that your child's got leukaemia, it's as if your world is coming to an end. You just can't believe it. It's like being run over by a train.
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Brian Davies
If you could imagine someone throwing sand in your eye and then having that 12-14 hours a day, then you'll get some perspective of what the feeling's like. If I don’t have a cornea transplant soon I will go blind.
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Emma Adams
It's called a non-A/non-B hepatitis. We have no idea how people get this condition and I think in Emma's case, it's going to result in her needing a transplant.
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James Baffoe
The condition I've got is called sickle cell anaemia. It's lack of oxygen in the red blood cells and in my case, some of them collapse into like a half moon shape, that's where you get the 'sickle' name from.
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Sally Brewis
Leukaemia is a cancer of the blood and your blood is produced in your bone marrow. My bone marrow wasn't able to produce blood by itself.
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Veronica Penn
I had multiple injuries, my most serious one was my pelvis had been fractured about five times and I ruptured my spleen three times so it was removed.
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