"He's crying out at us, 'Mummy, Daddy, please, water'"

Olly is just trying to be a normal little boy – who happens to be spending 84 hours a week connected to a dialysis machine. He and his family are living with his stage 5 kidney failure and waiting for a transplant.

We met Olly and his mum Dionne at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

After he was born, Olly didn't grow and develop as expected. At eight months he was still wearing a coat for a one-month-old baby. He was diagnosed with stage 5 kidney failure and has been on dialysis ever since while he waits for a life-saving kidney transplant.

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"He's crying out at us, 'Mummy, Daddy, please, water'"

Olly is just trying to be a normal little boy – who happens to be spending 84 hours a week connected to a dialysis machine. He and his family are living with his stage 5 kidney failure and waiting for a transplant.

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