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Jess' Story

Doctors told me I probably wouldn’t make it to my 30th birthday, but I’ve got a very stubborn streak and wanted to live my best life while I could.

That surgery was the best thing I’ve ever done because it gave me back my life. Six months after the transplant, I was skiing on Mt Ruapehu and nine months after that, climbing Nelson’s mountains."

Jessica van Slooten tells her story of how a pair of donated lungs not only saved her life but totally transformed it.

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Questions & Answers

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I will be eternally grateful to an unknown donor family who enabled me to gain sight.

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