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Donna Louise Davidson was born on July 14, 1983 and led a fairly normal childhood until she reached the age of 19.
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Donna also promoted organ donation through media and charity events and was also the figurehad for the British Heart Foundations Christmas fundraising drive. Leonie was delivered by Caesarean section on 9 August 2002 while Donna was treated for heart failure. After 12 weeks of treatment was not successful, doctors realised that a heart transplant was the only option and on 2 November 2002 Donna received her first heart transplant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.
After her transplant Donna developed Transplant rejection a number of times requiring various hospital stays.
James received his heart transplant shortly after. In April 2005 Donna started to feel short of breath and could barely walk.
She was diagnosed with Chronic Organ rejection and her body had developed donor specific antibodies which were attacking her heart. This resulted in Donna being listed for another transplant as there was nothing that could be done to save this heart.
Four months later Donna received heart transplant number two.
In 2007 James died due to transplant complications which hit Donna hard as they had grown very close due to their illnesses. They also added that there was a fault in the TNNT2 Gene which was the cause of all their heart related problems. Donnas Dream is a campaign for an more people to sign the organ donor register in the United Kingdom run by Aaran Mansell in memory of and inspired by Donna Mansell in order to raise the amount of donor organs available for Organ Donation and ultimately Transplant.
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