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I lost 4 stone to save my son Doctors said one of my kidneys could save Nicholas. But as I was 16st 7lb the operation was too dangerous. I was given just six months to do something about it
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NICHOLAS HARRISON was born with a kidney defect. His parents Kim,
41, a classroom assistant and Keith, 46, a civil servant from
Salisbury, Wiltshire, were warned that one day he would need a
transplant. In January, when he was 17, his health deteriorated but,
fortunately, his mother was a perfect match as a donor. However, at
5ft 2in and size 22, her weight was a dangerous obstacle to the
operation. She had just six months to lose 5st and save his life.
Here, Kim, who has two other children, ...
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I lost 4 stone to save my son Doctors said one of my kidneys could save Nicholas. But as I was 16st 7lb the operation was too dangerous. I was given just six months to do something about it
Daily Mail
; ... I'd got on to the bus just weeks before news about the transplant and heard one passenger ... kidney transplant. When he told me the news, I was sitting on the ward beside Nicholas ... mid-teens, he felt tired and lacked energy. The news was not good. His one remaining kidney ...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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I lost 4 stone to save my son; Doctors said one of my kidneys could save Nicholas. But as I was 16st 7lb the operation was too dangerous. I was given just six months to do something about it.
The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ... I'd got on to the bus just weeks before news about the transplant and heard one passenger ... kidney transplant. When he told me the news, I was sitting on the ward beside Nicholas ... mid-teens, he felt tired and lacked energy. The news was not good. His one remaining kidney ...
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'David, what on earth would Mother think?' For 68 years, Nicholas Irving has lived in the shadow of his twin, the reviled historian and Hitler apologist who was jailed last week for three years. Here, he tells Olga Craig of the trials of growing up with a brother who even at the age of six was giving the Nazi salute
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Nicholas Irving leans forward, rubs his brow and runs a hand over his bald head as though the unconscious gesture might help him put his thoughts in order. "It has been something of a trial being David Irving's twin he says, as he begins to recount life growing up with the infamous historian,
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Wrongful life? The strange case of Nicholas Perruche
Human Life Review
; The law tells stories. So argues Catholic legal scholar Mary Ann Glendon in her short but fascinating book, Abortion and Divorce in Western Law. Glendon draws on anthropologist Clifford Geertz's claim that law is a "culture system"-it "tells stories about the culture that helped to shape it and
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For Nicholas Simmons, Blaze is a fuzzy form of therapy
Daily Record, The Wooster, OH
; Nicholas Simmons sits at his family's kitchen table leafing through a stack of magazines and pointing to the tennis shoes and athletic shorts he'd like to have. Something outdoors steals his attention and he turns abruptly to a window and pulls the curtain aside to see what's going on. It's nothing
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II.
The Economist (US)
; THE LAST TSAR: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF NICHOLAS II. By Edvard Radzinsky. Doubleday; 462 pages; $25. Hodder and Stoughton; Pounds20 THE difference a great man makes to the course of history has been the stuff of legend, drama and professional study since the birth of history itself. And yet the wrong
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INVESTOR, A FORMER BADGER, HAS FOND MEMORIES Nicholas sad, excited about move Series: From the FIELDHOUSE to the KOHL CENTER
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Albert Nicholas has 10 million reasons to love the Kohl Center. But after the final game at the 68-year-old UW Fieldhouse Wednesday, the Milwaukee mutual fund executive walked into the wintry night carrying some sadness at the passing of an era. "It's bittersweet," said Nicholas, founder and
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The life and lore of St. Nicholas in art of East and West
International Herald Tribune
; Roderick Conway Morris International Herald Tribune 12-16-2006 'If God were to die, at least we would still have St. Nicholas according to the Russian proverb.Patron saint of children, scholars, sailors, travelers, merchants, pawnbrokers, pirates, robbers, Russia, numerous towns and cities (mostly
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Rich Parting Package for Time Warner Ex-Boss; Nicholas Keeps Salary, Options, Benefits After Being Forced Out
The Washington Post
; Nicholas J. Nicholas, who was ousted as president and co-chief executive of Time Warner Inc. in February, will receive $15.7 million in cash from the company and has stock options that show a paper profit of an additional $8.5 million, according to Time Warner documents and company sources.
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 "The People (London, England)")
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Nicholas' gift of life...; He was just a small child when he was murdered by bandits, yet Nicholas Green lives on in the bodies of seven people. JOHN EARLS tells a story so remarkable it has touched the hearts of Hollywood...(Features)
The People (London, England)
; N ICHOLAS Green was a happy-go-lucky lad of seven enjoying a family holiday in Italy when he was gunned down by robbers while sleeping in the family car. But out of the tragedy of his murder has come a remarkable story - for little Nicholas didn't die in vain. The lives of five other people were
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