An acclaimed post-transplant athlete has credited the care he received at a Scottish hospital with allowing him to care for his wife after she received a terminal cancer diagnosis.
Steve Donaldson is in training for his third Transplant Games, an athletics championship exclusively for organ transplant patients, thanks to a heart transplant he received 12 years ago at the NHS Golden Jubilee National University Hospital in Clydebank. The Scottish Daily Express reports the Nairn man has had a heart condition since he was 18, when he collapsed and was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy.
This developed into severe heart failure, requiring treatments including the fitting of a defibrillator implant, until Steve was put on the transplant list in 2010. His transplant meant he could look after wife Linda after she was given a breast cancer diagnosis – tragically, she died in 2015.
