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'I've had a heart, liver, lung and kidney transplant'.(News)

Article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) Article date: April 5, 2007

Byline: By Greg Tindle South Wales Echo

If there's one person who truly appreciates the gift of organ donation, it's medical student Allison John. For in the past 12 years Allison has received three massive life-saving transplants, undergoing surgery that has replaced her liver, heart, lungs and kidneys.

In turn, Allison has donated her own heart to a man in Kent, giving the ex-serviceman in his '60s a new lease of life.

Not surprisingly this catalogue of operations have caused wholesale disruption to Allison's life ...

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