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Speaker 1: Hang it up to it everyone. You're having a wonderful

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Speaker 1: drive home woods. You and I had a chat with

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Speaker 1: a woman called Josephine and recently, quite recently, she was

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Speaker 1: really quite distraught and desperate because she was looking for

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Speaker 1: a stem cell donor for her partner Liam, who was

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Speaker 1: really really sick, and we put this call out. We

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Speaker 1: were like, guys, please please go and help, and you

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Speaker 1: still can if you want to go along to lifeblood

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Speaker 1: dot com dot au if you want to try and

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Speaker 1: donate your stem cells, because the great news is it

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Speaker 1: can help someone, and in this instance it actually did.

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Speaker 1: And we have a very well alive Liam who joins

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Speaker 1: us right now. Welcome Liam, Yeah, I'm alive.

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Speaker 2: More sort of animated voice for you to do Frankenstein properly,

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Speaker 2: but from here, living and breathing and waiting with great

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Speaker 2: anticipation for the transplant.

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Speaker 3: Can you run us through Liam, the moment that you

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Speaker 3: found out, how you found that and just how that feel.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it's surreal. We got to a point where

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Speaker 2: we never sort of given up, but yeah, we knew

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Speaker 2: it was going to be a hard slog. And then

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Speaker 2: then a telehealth appointment with transplant doctor and he gave

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Speaker 2: us the great news that there was a match found

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Speaker 2: for us in a recent addition to the registered and

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Speaker 2: it's found me a diner, but get this guy's it's

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Speaker 2: actually found for other people don just in a short time.

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Speaker 2: So we thought, well, what what what an amazing gift

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Speaker 2: from that individual. And obviously, yeah, I'm sure you can

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Speaker 2: probably put together the picture in the room, high dust content,

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Speaker 2: a lot of wiping of eyes.

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Speaker 3: Do the kids get it, lamb? How much did you

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Speaker 3: tell the kids about what was going on? And do

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Speaker 3: they understand now that you know you've got the donation

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Speaker 3: that you needed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably for me the hardest part of all

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Speaker 2: of this. You know, they're three and four.

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Speaker 1: Men.

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Speaker 2: Like all parents, we think our children are quite advanced

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Speaker 2: and would of course understand the medical terminology, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: Now we've been pretty disciplined in how we've explained it

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Speaker 2: to them, and it wasn't lost on them, you know,

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Speaker 2: for their little minds, you know, that was something quite significant.

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Speaker 1: It's a wonderful story, Lamb, it really is made Congratulations

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Speaker 1: and everybody else should know that only ten percent of

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Speaker 1: Aussie blood donors are on the stem cell registry. It's

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Speaker 1: really not a hard thing on The restriction is you

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Speaker 1: need to be eighteen to thirty five and get around it.

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Speaker 1: Registered to donate blood at lifeblood dot com dot you

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Speaker 1: and when you're at your appointment, just ask to join

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Speaker 1: the stem cell register and you can keep people like

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Speaker 1: Liam alive. Mate. Congratulations, it's a hell of a story.

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Speaker 1: It's wonderful that we've followed it, and honestly our best

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Speaker 1: wishes to you your family and yeah, congratulations.

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Speaker 2: Mate, Yeah, thanks, guys really appreciate it. Means well to us,

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Speaker 2: no worries at all.

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Speaker 1: Lean, thanks so much for coming on the show, mate.

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Speaker 1: It's a hell of a journey and I'm really really

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Speaker 1: glad that we've been across it and been able to

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Speaker 1: help you guys out. We're going to get out of here. Woods,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us the South then and

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Speaker 1: everyoney's been a pleasure as always.

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Speaker 3: Tomorrow we speak more about Jay the wig man. He

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Speaker 3: reckons he can tell if anyone who's wearing a wig

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Speaker 3: from over fifty meters away can he actually do it

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Speaker 3: though we put him to the test. We'll talk about

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Speaker 3: it more tomorrow. Froan for