‘Jumping from planes scarier than transplant’ says former paratrooper
A former paratrooper who received a donor heart after living with a heart disease for more than two decades has thanked medical staff for “wonderful” care and said that jumping out of planes was scarier than the transplant process.
Joe Scott lived with cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle which makes it harder to pump blood around the body, for 25 years and was on the transplant list for four before a donor organ was available.
The 61-year-old, from Irvine in Ayrshire, who was part of the British Parachute Regiment said: “One of the mottos on the RAF badge is ‘Knowledge Dispels Fear’. That stuck with me over the years and it 100% helped me through my transplant process.
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