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    Hi, my name is Michelle. Unlike most transplant recipients I enjoyed a life full of health and fitness right up until I ruptured my liver from a hard fall during a game of sport. A freak accident. A week after initial surgery, my liver suddenly failed and I was in real trouble. My only chance… Michelle
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    My kidney disease came out of the blue. One day at work I began to feel unwell and I decided to go home. Not long after I started to lose all sense of direction and balance, then collapsed. My body was shutting down. My brain and heart blew-up and my left side became paralysed. A few days later a… Heart Image
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    If you ever have a doubt about organ donation, then please read my story.I was sick for a year before eventually being diagnosed with chronic renal failure.My first thoughts were, No way, I'm only 25 and stay fit by playing sports, they must have it wrong – but they were right.We went through all… Mike
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    Mitchell's wish was to be a paramedic. When his life was cut tragically short late last year, he lost the opportunity to have his dream job, but he still saved the lives of four people. His gift of organ donation was the ultimate way of helping people. He was a… Mitchell
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    Terry was a decent family man, a fine lawyer and a respected politician. In 2007 when he died of heart failure while cycling at Red Hill. He was an ACT Supreme Court Judge. He didn't expect to die and had much to live for. His daughters Lara and Maddy turned 15 and 14 years old two and five days… Terry
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    Muffy lived her whole life in pain until a life-changing bone marrow transplant when in her 60s. She was also the recipient of a sight-saving corneal transplant at 70.Diagnosed with scoliosis at age 11, Muffy said the constant pain became a part of her life.‘The curvature appeared when I was… Muffy – bone marrow and corneal recipient, NSW
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    As a baby, there would have been endless sleepless nights for you. As a toddler, I would have kept you on your feet. As a teenager, no doubt I gave you many headaches. I thought you were too strict and over protective, I wanted to run away. The day I got diagnosed with my illness, the only… Mum
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    Our beautiful Cheryl (Mum) left us as the result of a choking accident (food). It is hard to comprehend and brain death is even harder. On arrival at the hospital we were told to expect the worst and then asked if we had considered organ donation.We spent the next four days bedside, barely… Heart Image
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    I feel that the sad stories need to be told as well as the successful and happy ones. Mum was a 58 year old who had never smoked in her life.  She loved the outdoors and her family.  At the time of her death, her grandchildren were four and two.  My twin sister and I were twenty… Leonie
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    In February my brother Danny passed away at Cairns. He went into a diabetic coma a few days earlier. I can remember one day I asked him about organ donation should anything ever happen to him. His answer was, "Well if they can find anything useful, they're welcome to it." When Danny… Heart Image
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