A TEENAGER who very nearly lost his life to heart failure has spoken of his experience for the first time in the hope more people sign the organ donor register.
Sixteen-year-old Joe Peard, from St Judes, had to undergo an urgent heart transplant at Great Ormond Street Hospital, in London, earlier this year.
The Devonport High School for Boys student, and keen basketball player and coach, was diagnosed with a condition called restrictive cardiomyopathy, which caused him to have an enlarged heart, at the age of 14. And by October last year Joe was told he was in heart failure.
He underwent the five-hour transplant operation just months later - an operation he said saved his life.
“I had an episode that put me in Derriford Hospital at the end of last year, where my heart rate went really fast,” said Joe. “I would have black-outs, could barely breathe, had a really fast heart rate and I was really hot and clammy. I was in school when it happened.
Continue reading
______________________________________________________
"You have the power to SAVE lives."
To register as a donor in California:
www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org | www.doneVIDAcalifornia.org
Outside California:
www.organdonor.gov | www.donatelife.
0 comments:
Post a Comment