When just 24 years of age, and normally “fit as a fiddle”, I found myself facing Britain’s biggest killer – heart disease. At that time, in 2007, I broke an unenviable European record by waiting just 50 hours for a new heart to be found and transplanted when the average waiting time for a new heart is over 100 days.
And today I am wasting no time getting to grips with my own fitness while helping to raise funds for the hospital that saved me. I have entered my first British Transplant Games, to be held in Coventry this summer, and organised on behalf of Transplant Sport .
The aim of The Games is to encourage transplant patients back to fitness and promote friendship and co-operation between individuals who have experienced transplants. But I have a bigger target in mind than even that. I will be entering the games and whilst not 100% on the events, I plan to enter something like 100m, 200m, 800m, 100 metre relay, darts and high jump to raise cash for the Freeman Heart & Lung Transplant Association.
I have set up this website with a very ambitious target to raise £3,000 for the FHLTA however in truth my main aim is to simply raise the profile of organ donation and to get more people on the donor register - check it out www.uktransplant.org.uk.
That would really be a target worth achieving.
Thank you for reading and if you have, for sponsoring me. If you leave an email address in the comments box I will email you of my progress at the games and some pics too. Thanks agian.
