IT is just over two years since Trevor Dixon underwent a five-hour heart transplant operation.
To look at him now, you would never know.
At the time, only three per cent of his heart worked and he was given just four weeks to live.
He spent six weeks before his transplant in Wythenshawe Heart and Lung Transplant Unit in Manchester, and was in a coma for seven days afterwards.
He now acts as a ‘buddy’ for those who are on the waiting list, or have had a heart transplant. He visits people to help reassure those who are waiting and are feeling nervous, or those who have had the operation and are feeling a bit down. He said it can be difficult for some people to come to terms with the fact they have someone else’s heart inside them.
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