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Patient and donor stories


Amazing real stories from those affected by donation and transplantation

Blood

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Rebekah

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

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Archie

Archie has a rare blood disorder and needs regular blood transfusions to stay alive.

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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

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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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Jane

Jane helped five people when her organs were donated after her death.

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Platelets

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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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Colin

“There are only a small number of ethnic donors and I'm proud to be one of them."

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Stem cells and cord blood

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Keira

A stem cell transplant saved Keira’s life after she was diagnosed with a rare blood condition.

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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.

Read Josie's story
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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.

Read Laura and Bilal's story

Tissue

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Karl

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

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Alex

Alex was born without a pulmonary heart valve and needed two transplants.

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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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