6 December 2018 - Rachel Paine never meant to settle overseas but coming home risks death.

The former Lynfield College student was in her early 20s and living with a friend in Perth when she started getting dizzy spells. She couldn't get through a quarter of netball without feeling like she'd pass out.

After being hospitalised with a sharp pain in her stomach specialists eventually diagnosed an extremely rare blood and immune condition, called paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria.

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