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A new pancreas & kidney meant a new life for Becky

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A new pancreas & kidney meant a new life for Becky

Within months of each other I was diagnosed with sight threatening diabetic retinopathy, diabetic peripheral neuropathy (painful nerve damage in my feet and legs), gastroparesis (nerve damage in the stomach), diabetic nephropathy (diabetic kidney disease) and...
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Welfare 4 Hire Charity Unit supports LLGL

Welfare 4 Hire are an independent company which specialises in providing mobile welfare unit hire to sites across the UK. The company has dedicated its 200th welfare unit to a charitable cause, and the cause is...
Life Stories
A double lung transplant gave Catherine a chance to live her life again

By June 2019 I was starting to deteriorate rapidly. My feet/ankles were swelling, my breathlessness became a struggle and I was starting to be sick after everything I ate. This was a very scary time for...
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Advocate story – Holly’s double lung transplant

I was born with, and at 6 weeks old, diagnosed with ,the genetic condition cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis causes the lungs and digestive system to become clogged with thick, sticky mucus meaning that food isn’t digested...
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1st heart transplant recipient in the UK to regain a licence to continue driving an HGV

He couldn’t even manage stairs anymore by this stage and so at his next check up the team at the Scottish Advanced Heart Failure Unit decided he would need to go back into hospital and be...
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Having a heart transplant when your mother died having a heart transplant

With the history of my nan, this was easily one of the scariest days of my life, worrying that history may repeat itself.