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A LOVE LIKE NO OTHER

‘I DONATED A KIDNEY TO MY DAUGHTER’

When Laura Di Scala noticed that her daughter’s eyes were puffy, she thought it was an allergic reaction. But the following day when she lifted up Aleia, then 3, Laura noticed the tot was much heavier than usual.

A urine test and hospital examinations quickly diagnosed Nephrotic syndrome – Aleia’s kidneys weren’t functioning properly.

“She went to hospital and didn’t come out for several months,” says Laura, 37, from Melbourne. Aleia gained as much as half a

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