A boy who had a life-saving liver transplant has thanked the parents of the teenager who gifted her organs. Ollie Jolliff, five, was just 11 months old when he received a donor liver.
The rare disease causing toxic ammonia to gather in his blood had already claimed the life of his four-year-old brother Kieran a decade earlier.
Ollie’s liver came from teenager Miriam Lee, who tragically collapsed and died at the age of 17. A friendship has now developed between the two families after Ollie’s mum and dad, Hannah and Mike, sent a heartfelt thank-you letter to Miriam’s parents, Nicola and David Lee.
Supermarket worker Nicola, 56, said: “We felt this connection through Miriam. "Both families have been through so much, we felt we had a common
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