Life Stories

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Be inspired by the personal accounts of the donor community

Across Australia, tens of thousands of lives have been touched by organ and tissue donation. This includes the lives of people who receive transplants and their families, as well as the families of those who donate.

Find out how you can share your donation story, too.

Mar 20
2 min

Nicole will be doing a Gift of Life Walk in Adelaide and has shared her heart transplant story

As a teenager I would faint sporadically and felt lightheaded, but doctors dismissed my symptoms due to being an active and anaemic...

Feb 1, 2021
1 min

Ash Morgan

Three years ago, Ash was diagnosed with interstitial lung disease. A degenerative disease of the lungs with no cure. By the end of 2019...

Dec 18, 2020
2 min

David's story - One day to live

Almost thirty years ago, I faced a sudden and unexpected crisis. I had enjoyed a very interesting and varied life during a career with...

Dec 14, 2020
2 min

Susannah’s Transplant Story

Susannah has an auto-immune disease called Pauci-immune glomerulonephritis, which is a condition in which your immune system attacks your...

Nov 23, 2020
1 min

Cath's story - The gift of sight

Catherine has keratoconus in both corneas and started losing her sight at 9 years of age. By 14 her only option for sight was a corneal...

Sep 1, 2020
1 min

Justice Terry Connolly - a husband, father, son and, following his death, a tissue donor

Justice Terry Connolly died suddenly in the early morning of 25 September 2007 on Red Hill, having cycled to the top as part of his...

Feb 26, 2020
2 min

John's story - A fight for survival

John Scott was first diagnosed with kidney failure when he was 27 years old. At the time, Doctors were unsure of the cause and prescribed...

Feb 20, 2020
1 min

Mallie's story

These are the last photos Canberran Mallie Taylor has with her husband Matthew before he died. Matthew was denied a lung transplant on...