heart transplant
"I can’t articulate what it was like to lose my mother like that, after being diagnosed with the same disease. I just know the fear of meeting that same fate was something I carried since that hot July day."
More than 6,000 people in the UK are facing Christmas on the waiting list for an organ transplant.
'I was about six hours from death.'
They restored it to the level of a 'healthy heart'.
'Nothing prepares you for the beauty of this moment.'
'Thank you for doing the job you do, which may well lead to me being alive for longer.'
'What I’ve witnessed today, is nothing short of a miracle.'