Best friends who were days away from dying of a deadly lung disease have been saved after receiving life saving transplants on the same day.
Kirstie Tancock, 24, and Katie Gammon, 15, both from Devon, both suffer from cystic fibrosis.
The pair were so ill that their families were preparing for the worst - and Katie had even been transferred to a hospice.
But remarkably, on the same day in August this year, both girls were told that donors had been found.
The pair are now fighting fit, and are looking forward to Christmas with their families.
Kirstie said: 'I couldn’t believe how lucky I had been to find another donor match but for Katie to get her wish too and on the same day - it was the best day of our lives.'
Doctors told Kirstie that she was being transferred to a hospice after her first transplant from 2011 began failing.
Kirstie added: 'I went from being told I was going to die to doctors putting me on the transplant list and miraculously receiving a second transplant.'
Her friend Katie Gammon, 15, had been on the waiting list for a lung transplant for 14 months when a match was finally found.
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