Patient and donor stories

Amazing real stories from those affected by donation and transplantation

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Blood donors and recipients
Organ donors and recipients
Platelet donors and recipients
Stem cell/cord blood donors and recipients
Tissue donors and recipients

Blood

Rebekah

Rebekah needs regular blood transfusions in her battle against Hodgkin Lymphoma.

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Archie

Archie relied on blood transfusions for ten years.

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Barry

Barry has been donating blood for 50 years and has potentially saved more than 450 lives.

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Organs

Freddie

Freddie had a liver transplant in 2015 and his parents are filled with gratitude for his hero donor.

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Katie

Katie spent eight years on dialysis before receiving a kidney from a stranger.

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Carl

Carl donated a kidney to a stranger after seeing a friend’s life saved by a transplant.

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Platelets

Riley

Riley needed platelet transfusions after chemotherapy for leukaemia.

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Louis

Miracle baby, Louis was safely born after a series of platelet transfusions in the womb.

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Matt

"Giving platelets is my chance to save even more lives."

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Stem cells and cord blood

Harvey

Harvey received a lifesaving cord blood transplant after being diagnosed with Hurler’s syndrome.

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Josie

Josie donated life-saving bone marrow to save a boy who lived 7000 miles away.

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Laura and Bilal

Bilal's mum, Laura donated her cord blood and hopes it will one day save someone's life.

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Tissue

Karl

Karl needed years of skin grafts after suffering severe burns from a bomb explosion in Iraq.

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Angharad

CBeebies star Angharad Rhodes had a cornea transplant in 2016 and hopes to continue to inspire others in her television role.

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Jo and Doreen

When Doreen died, daughter Jo wanted to make sure her mother's wishes to donate her organs were honoured.

Read Jo and Doreen's story

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