B&H AC athlete had an incredible weekend at The British Transplant Games in Oxford, last weekend for the King’s Adults Transplant Team!
GOLD 100m, new PB, & winner of the Carl Whittaker trophy for the Games’ ‘Outstanding Athlete’, awarded to the fastest 100m sprinter of the Games, across all age categories GOLD 200m GOLD 4X100m mixed relay, bringing the Craig O’Neill cup back for the 2nd year to King’s Adults Transplant TeamBramble was born with a rare liver disease, and despite surgery at just 7 weeks old and other medical interventions, needed to be listed for a liver transplant. At 8 months old he was in acute liver failure and no suitable livers were could be found on the organ donor register. Luckily for him his Mum proved to be a suitable match, and so she was able to be his live donor. At 3 years old he had another huge setback; his bone marrow failed three times and bone marrow transplant was discussed. But then he developed aggressive PTLD, a rare cancer which can be a complication of transplantation. Bramble had emergency surgery to remove large tumours which were blocking his bowel then started 5 months of intensive inpatient immunotherapy and chemotherapy and finally, thankfully, went into remission.
Bramble has worked so hard and is showing what a transplanted human and cancer survivor can achieve against huge odds. He is now heading to the World Transplant Games in Dresden in 2 weeks time! We wish you the best of luck Bramble!
