Wallsend mam’s hope for a transplant heart for new life
SHE looks like any other doting mum as she plays with her daughter in her garden.
View ArticleHigh Heaton boy gets rare liver transplant operation
BOUNDING through the park, young Joseph Hunsley is a walking miracle. The remarkable seven-year-old weighed barely two pounds when he was born with an unknown liver disease.
View ArticleTransplant is called off as kidney heals itself
LITTLE Emily Clark is a walking miracle. After twice battling cancer and having a kidney removed because it failed, doctors were preparing the nine-year-old for a transplant.
View ArticleAyesha Ahmed celebrates double lung transplant anniversary
TWELVE short months ago every breath she took was agony.
View ArticleHeart swap patient calls for people to sign donor register
SAVED by a double op swap, Chris Richardson is now on a mission to help others.
View ArticleSouth Shields heart girl recovers from transplant
LITTLE miracle Llana Qazi has been given the gift of life – a new heart. As the girl at the top of the heart swap op list, 11-month-old Llana has relied on a mechanical heart to keep her alive in...
View ArticleEx-RAF blood donor on how he saved a young life
SEEING his blood save a young life is something Michael Cameron will never forget. The 65-year-old, from North Shields, was in the RAF and had started making donations.
View ArticleCramlington girl's life is saved by heart transplant
AS she laughs and plays with her big sister it’s hard to believe that it was only a few months ago Rachel Hooley was lying in a hospital bed, desperately needing a life-saving heart transplant.
View ArticleHow to register as an organ donor
FOR those wanting to join the NHS Organ Donor Register, it could not be more simple.
View ArticleParents praying for heart for baby Scarlett Ungurs
CLINGING to life, little Scarlett Ungurs is in desperate need of a new heart – but all she and her doting parents can do is wait and pray.
View ArticleHeart transplant situation critical says Freeman Hospital doctor
EIGHT tiny lives hang in the balance today – all in need of a heart transplant. All aged two or under, the children urgently need a swap op and time is becoming critical.
View ArticleTyneside teen on how kidney op transformed her life
DADDY’S girl Ellyn Laws’ life was saved exactly seven years ago today by her father. She will forever be grateful to devoted David for giving her the kidney she so desperately needed.
View ArticleWalking miracle is forever grateful for chance at life
DOCTORS told Kaylee Davidson’s family she may only survive a year after her heart transplant, but 25 years later she continues to defy medics.
View ArticleWhitley Bay grandmother needs a lung transplant
SANDRA Percy is facing a race against time to undergo life-saving surgery. Sandra has spent more than 12 months on the donor waiting list for a double lung transplant which could give her precious time...
View ArticleHigh Heaton family eternally grateful to lifesaving donor
WITHOUT his organ donor, Joseph Hunsley would not be the energetic little boy he is today.
View ArticleMum takes to her bike to raise awareness for CHUF
Ashleigh Leybourne and 20 of her friends are cycling through North Tyneside tomorrow to raise money for the children’s heart unit at the Freeman Hospital where her 19-month-old daughter Scarlett is...
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