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Friday, January 6, 2012

Pride of Australia's Coen needs a new set of lungs, Australia

Herald Sun | Lucie van den Berg

HE has fresh sea air by the bucketload, but Coen Ashton is treading water.

The boy needs a new set of lungs to save him from cystic fibrosis.

The Ashton family have uprooted their lives and temporarily moved from Queensland to Melbourne so he can undergo a lifesaving transplant through The Alfred's Paediatric Lung Transplant Service.

"We've had no other choice, it's last chance stuff for Coen. If he doesn't receive a set of lungs, we don't know how long he will have," his mother Dawn Ashton said.

The 14-year-old, who won the Pride of Australia's People's Choice medal last year for boosting organ donor rates by 1000 by riding 2000km on a jet ski, has found his sea legs.

"It's a new adventure," he said.

The family of four are living on their catamaran at the Docklands while they work out where they will stay.

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