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As the Irish Transplant Team competed in the European Transplant and Dialysis Sports Championships, participants hoped to bring comfort to the families of organ donors, who have given them the greatest gift of all - life.
"It's a really positive way to give back to everybody who has contributed to your health and keeping you right," says 46-year-old liver transplant recipient Deirdre Faul from Dalkey, Dublin, who won four medals at the event.
At just 35, Deirdre, then a mother of two children aged three and five, became seriously ill. "Essentially I just got sick," she explains. "I had vertigo, I felt sort of sea sick and that kept going on and then I got jaundice and the doctor thought I had gall stones, then they thought it was something viral."
http://www.independent.ie/life/heal...fe-irelands-transplant-athletes-30529113.html
"It's a really positive way to give back to everybody who has contributed to your health and keeping you right," says 46-year-old liver transplant recipient Deirdre Faul from Dalkey, Dublin, who won four medals at the event.
At just 35, Deirdre, then a mother of two children aged three and five, became seriously ill. "Essentially I just got sick," she explains. "I had vertigo, I felt sort of sea sick and that kept going on and then I got jaundice and the doctor thought I had gall stones, then they thought it was something viral."
http://www.independent.ie/life/heal...fe-irelands-transplant-athletes-30529113.html