Heart transplant planned
PA Hamilton A Te Atoha heart transplant patient, Mr Rowan Stokes will fly to Sydney on Saturday — a passenger In a race for life. “It is a. race against: time,” Mr Stokes said yesterday. “It is a question of which one wins — the doctors or my failing heart.” Mr Stokes is aware his condition is worsening. “I’m feeling not too bad,
but I know I’m not as good as I was.” He is more than grateful to Waikato people and others who have made the transplant possible by raising $60,000 ‘|n/lit|tle ntiore than two months' to fund it.
: Mr Stokes will check into Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital on Sunday. He will be there at least three days for additional tests. Doctors will decide
whether he will stay in hospital or become an outpatient while waiting for a new heart. The average wait for a compatible heart is five weeks. ’ . i i ; ; Transplant patients usually spend a month in hospital after their surgery and are outpatients for a further two months before being allowed home.
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