Jan and Lucy Collins were trying to bring up their five kids in the toughest of circumstances. Along with triplets, Lola, Daisy and Amber, they are parents to Hadley and Kenneth.
Family life was suffering as they struggled to support two of their daughters, Daisy and Amber, who suffer from an incurable kidney disease.
Complications before the triplets were born have left two of them living with nephrotic syndrome, a disease that causes kidney failure and requires them to have 70 hours of dialysis each week.
The nearest hospital that offers the service they need is a four-hour round trip away in Bristol, so four times a week they were forced to make the journey from their home in Barnstaple, Devon.
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