Holding on for a perfect match

WHEN the call came through last Thursday from the Mater Hospital in Dublin, it offered Isabel Terry the chance to lead a normal life again. The news was good; a suitable donor heart had been found for the 31-year-old who has congenital heart disease.

After two-and-a-half years on a transplant waiting list, this was the call she and her family had been waiting for.

“We were so shocked when we heard, but excited as well, of course. It was all my dreams come true and I was over the moon, and we set off for Dublin immediately,” Isabel recalls.