Britain’s first double hand transplant recipient interview – Video
NHS 70 – A Life Transformed: Britain’s first double hand transplant recipient | ITV News
It’s the most routine of everyday tasks, but for Chris King, this is a test passed with flying colours after all hats; no, I love ours. Chris making a cup of tea is a little short of a medical miracle. This was Chris; five years ago, both his hands were crushed in a metal pressing machine at work. Surgeons had no alternative but to amputate his fingers and much of the hung themselves, leaving just his thumbs. It was very difficult times. I had some big crying days, and that was the first time I prayed to God. God’s only salvation was to come three years later, when Chris became the first person in the UK to have a double hand transplant just gone perfect. Now he’s being back to Leeds General Infirmary, where he had the operation, for one of his regular check-ups with Simon Kay, the plastic surgeon who led this pioneering team.
What about taking her safety nurses? I love doing it because you must have gone a long time without saying yes, yes, so what did it feel like when you first were able to marvel? What’s special about shaking hands exactly because I’ve always described it as this mainstream, and I was sort of just off, and I wasn’t connected, so now you are somebody and there’s a good grip; it’s not wet hands right now, and I am connected. The UK’s first hand transplant was carried out at the LGI in 2012; subsequently, the hospital was chosen by the Health Service to carry out the highly complex surgery for patients across the whole country, paid for by the NHS.
I was brought up outside the NHS as a Channel Islander, but when I had a bad hand injury, I was flown to a unit in the south of England, and it was the plastic surgery and reconstruction I received that drove my interest in my career, and that must have been within the first ten years of the NHS, and the interesting thing is I travel around to international conferences detailing our work, as most of the other surgeons are very interested in our work, but they’re really interested in the NHS.
They can’t believe that anybody in Britain can access healthcare without showing a credit card or paying any money upfront, and it’s there when they need it, and the Americans particularly, but also the Continentals, cannot understand that what’s perhaps easier to understand is the joy that Chris, a big snooker fan, felt when he played his first game of pool with his new arms. He lost by the way to his brother Andrew, but insists he beat Andrew later at a ten-pin bowling, so we’ll do some work on your famous hair, and it’s thanks to occupational therapy sessions with experts like Joe at the LGI that he’s getting more of his hand function back. We have a really good relationship, don’t we, and you have to because you spend so much time together, don’t we, and you do. You go through the ups and the downs together. I mean, it’s definitely a partnership. It’s a team. You know we’re a big team. We work together, and Chris is at the centre of that team. I praise them enough; there are no words I could ever write down. Just thank him. It’s the door. Such a tremendous job, and really the best thing I can do for them to show appreciation is to be a success at what I do and push on for that hundred percent. He also goes beyond, even though I may never get it. Still keep pushing and still making them proud.
Amputee given double hand transplant after five years on waiting list interview – Video
Amputee given double hand transplant after five years on waiting list | ITV News
After long and complex surgery, Corrine Hutton has a broad smile and is reaching out of her bandages for the first time in five years. She is the recipient of a hand transplant operation, and she is delighted they have already moved. Corrine had to have her hands and her feet amputated after suffering acute pneumonia and then sepsis. The illness very nearly killed her ever since. She has devoted her life to the charity she founded to provide support to people who’ve had limbs removed, becoming the first female quadruple amputee to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.
She also had her body painted with pictures of transplantable organs as part of a campaign to encourage people to consider registering as donors. Certainly speaking to Corrine yesterday, she’s very real about the responsibility she carries here that you as she changed the world from here and forward this to of you changed in the world that’s her and the lady that’s donating these hands. Corrine’s young son Rory has been her inspiration since she became an amputee; she didn’t want to become a mum who never did anything. She says now she’s looking forward to being able to ruffle his hair once more. Gavin Vincent News at 10:00 you.