Rachael Wakefield, who was one of the youngest people ever to undergo a double lung transplant, was the face of our campaign which moved 20,000 people to join the donor register. She got the call she had been praying for last spring, and was back home just 11 weeks and a day after surviving the operation.
But Rachael, from Dukinfield, died in October, aged just 23, after being struck down by a number of infections which damaged her new lungs. She had vowed to take part in the Bupa Great Manchester Run with her dad, Phil Mottershead, to raise money for Wythenshawe Hospital’s transplant unit, where she had her operation. Tragically, she died before she was able to realise her wish but Phil, 41, was determined to fulfil their promise.
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