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| Mum with leukaemia saved by her new born baby. |
| I was so looking forward to the birth of my first baby, that I just couldn’t take in what the doctor was saying.
‘I’m terribly sorry, but you have leukaemia,’ he said. It couldn’t be true. I was 26 weeks pregnant and I felt fine. ( transplant , durantes ) |
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| 5 brothers and sisters only one now survives. |
| AS these five brothers and sisters smile happily for the camera on a family trip no one could guess the tragedy that was to hit them.
Unbelievably four of the children in this picture are now dead - killed by a undetected heart condition that can cause a loss of consciousness and sudden death. ( griffiths ) |
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| Girl who has overcome her disfigurement. |
| AS I reached over to cuddle my newborn daughter Polly, I stared at her in shock.
She had a portwine stain down the right side of her face, and all down the left side of her body.
‘She has a massive birthmark,’ ( calver ) |
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| I asked my twin for his kidney. |
| My brother Ian and I had always been close - but it was probably the most difficult question of my life.
‘Can I have one of your kidneys,’ I asked him tentatively, as we were sat in the pub one afternoon with my wife Angela, and Ian’s girlfriend Caroline. ( rowe , transplant ) |
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| Young mum has to face a 50 % chance of surviving the next five years. |
| I have a 50 per cent chance of making it through the next five years. It’s like a death sentence hanging over me and I have to live with it every day. I look at my daughter and wonder if I’ll be around to see her grow up. I’m very careful about her going out in the sun now, and make sure she always wears proper sunscreen and doesn’t get burnt.
I would just want people to learn from reading my story, that the sun is a dangerous thing. ( borrett , skin cancer )
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| A girl who has fought against the odds and personal heartache to produce her own CD. |
| Adam and I first fell in love back in primary school - and he was my first special love.
I was just eight years old when we met. He was a year older than me.
I had been born with Downs Syndrome, but mum and dad were always determined that I would lead a normal life. ( goodey ) |
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| Thumbs up from the womb ! |
| I was actually carrying triplets. It took ages for the news to sink in. Neither of us could actually believe it.
Amazingly when the scan picture was handed to me, I got such a shock. Clearly I could see one of the triplets giving me a thumbs up from the womb. It was so clear, and just unbelievable. From that moment, I knew it was going to me alright. ( rider , multiple , birth ) |
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| 37 years of searching and I found my dad on the other side of the world. |
| I couldn’t believe it when I saw an email flashing up on my screen. ‘I believe you’re looking for my husband’ it read. I was shaking with excitement. This was it. An email from half way across the world - thousands of miles away in Argentina. After 37 years I had finally found my dad. ( perrin , lost , dad , father )
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| The mum accused of abusing her child who has a rare disease. |
| I’ve lost count of the amount of times that people think I’ve abused Bethan, or think that she’s been in a bad accident.
Bethan, now seven, was born with Glomuvenous Malformation, a rare genetic disorder that alters the structure of the veins.
It means that her veins don’t behave in the way they should, they bulge and cause blood clots and are very near the surface of her skin, causing it to look like bruising. ( slater ) |
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| A boat landed on me in the Tsunami but I defied the medics and can walk again. |
| AS Alison Walker walks across her garden, it was a moment she never thought possible.
As she lay trapped underneath a 20 foot wooden fishing boat, hurled on top of her by the massive devastating tsunami wave of Boxing Day 2004, her husband and family feared for her life.
She suffered massive injuries, including a shattered pelvis and spine, and the whole right side of her head was ripped open.
After managing to get to hospital, doctors said she only had a 50 per cent of survival - and if she did live, she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. |
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