Shane and I fundraise for the Children's Hospital at Westmead with our expeditions, but sometimes we wish we could do more and work miracles. Tianna is always on my mind since we met a couple of months ago.

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Wednesday 18/8/2010
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Section: General News
Region: Sydney
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Tianna's critical wait to do lid things
Brenton Cherry
TIANNA Zilifian puts on a brave Aleena said. "She has weekly
face but the reality is that a hospital visits and gets
critically sick girl is in dire need apprehensive and worked up
of a liver transplant. when she has to go in.
The five-year-old, from Belrose, "Her day at home is spent on
suffers from biliary atresia, a rare the couch. She does some craft
liver disease that destroys the activities but that's about it
ducts that carry bile to the because she just gets too
intestines. lethargic."
The Manly Daily first reported Mrs Zilifian said her daughter
on Tianna's condition in just wanted to be able to do
February after she was admitted normal "kid" things, and urged
to Bear Cottage in Manly for people to talk to their families
respite care. about becoming an organ donor.
Six months on and Tianna is still More information can be found
waiting on a donor, a wait that at WWW. donatelife or, to record
grows more critical every week. your decision to donate, visit
Tianna's mother, Aleena, said www.donorregister.gov.au, call
the wait was starting to take its 1800 777 203 or pick up a brochure
toll. at any Medicare office.
"She's not coping too well,"
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Tianna Zilifian, who needs a liver transplant, is back at Bear Cottage.
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