Transplant man goes home

Press, 24 October 1980, Page 3

Transplant man goes home

From KEN COATES , sin London ' I Mr Allan Gay, the New Zealand-born patient who received a heart transplant nearly three months ago, will be discharged as fit and well from Papworth Hospital today. ; He will travel to London by car, driven by Mr Keith Castle, Britain’s longest-liv-ing transplant recipient who was given, his new heart at

(Papworth more than a year lago. Mr Gay’s father-in-law, iMr Richard Pittman, said Mr ■ Castle would drive to Pap- : worth Hospital, near Cam- , bridge, for a check-up, and I had offered to take Mr Gay I back to London. Mr Pittman said Mrs Gay i had left by train and would i accompany her husband who • would probably spend two i days at St Thomas’s Hospital. Doctors there will oro- 1

• vide Mr Gay with the support treatment and checks , necessary in the ' months ■ ahead. Mr Gay, who has received many letters and messages I from New Zealand since his ’ transplant, worked as a communications supervisor ’ in London. He has said he I would like a change, and, if J all goes well, should be . ready for retraining or work! ■ in two or three months. '