Local ace Morgan grateful for Mullingar chance
The popular 32-year old Mullingar man, who has suffered from SADS or sudden arrhythmic death syndrome since 2004, feared he was having a massive heart attack when the defibrillator he had inserted suddenly kicked into action during a holiday in Spain. It turned out to be a faulty lead which connects the defibrillator to the wall of the heart and after having it replaced on March 4, Morgan is ready to tee it up again.
Drawn with newly-crowned Irish Amateur Open champion Robbie Cannon and Newlands’ Andrew Hogan in today’s first two rounds, Morgan said: “Initially when you get the shocks you think you are getting a heart attack because there’s no other reason why it should go off. Luckily enough there was a nurse with me at the time and she said I wasn’t having a heart attack. But with the sheer power of these jolts into your body you think, ‘Will this machine kill me?’ You go from ‘I am having a heart attack?’ to, ‘Is this machine going to kill me?’ You are in survival mode and a bit of blind panic.”
