As iemand ses jaar gelede vir Chris Truter en sy gesin ges\u00ea het hy gaan vanjaar aan die Kaapstad-fietstoer deelneem, sou hulle seker gedink het dis \u2019n bogstorie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar nee, di\u00e9 jongman, wat op elfjarige ouderdom \u2019n hartoorplanting gehad het, het teen alle verwagtinge gegaan en dit verkeerd bewys deur die speke behoorlik te laat sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Celeste Truter, Chris se ma, vertel dat sy steeds daardie oomblik \u201cklokhelder\u201d kan onthou toe die dokter hulle meedeel dat Chris, vandag \u2019n matrikulant aan die Hugenote Ho\u00ebrskool, hartversaking het en \u2019n nuwe hart nodig het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit is soos \u2019n rolprent wat teen helfte die spoed afspeel. Die gedagte was so oorweldigend dat ek nou nog terugdink en myself moet herinner dat dit werklik gebeur het; dat Chris \u2019n nuwe hart het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tydens Celeste se swangerskap met Chris en sy tweelingbroer, Basson, het dokters reeds op 12 weke vasgestel dat hy \u2019n hartafwyking het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit word hipoplastiese linkerhartsindroom genoem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die dokters het vir Celeste en haar man, Hugo, die opsie gegee om hul baba te groet om sodoende die ander baba se lewe te red, maar die ouerpaar het daarteen besluit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chris het sedert sy geboorte verskeie operasies ondergaan om sy lewensgehalte te verbeter. Alles het goed gegaan totdat die gesin in Junie 2017 op hul droomvakansie in Botswana gegaan het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit was baie spanningsvol. Chris se bloedsomloop het as gevolg van die ho\u00ebr lugdruk in Botswana nie voldoende funksioneer nie en hy het 2 500 km van die huis af hartversaking gehad,\u201d het Celeste op \u2019n vorige geleentheid aan Paarl Post<\/span> ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nadat die familie die skoknuus ontvang het dat Chris \u2019n hartoorplanting nodig het, is hy op \u2019n orgaanoorplantingslys geplaas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHy was vir 201 dae op die oorplantingslys voordat ons die nuus van \u2019n skenkerhart ontvang het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris het toe \u2019n 12 uur lange operasie ondergaan, maar dit was glad nie maklik nie, onthou Celeste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cJa, dit was \u2019n marathon-sessie. Dit was \u2019n geweldige stresvolle tyd \u2013 \u2019n mens is dan in \u2019n bubble<\/span> waar die fokus net op oorlewing is \u2013 vir jouself en vir jou kind. Jy kan dan net in dankbaarheid na die mense om jou kyk. Ons familie en vriende het ons gedra en ons gemeenskap in Wellington was op hulle knie\u00eb vir ons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Toe Chris vir haar s\u00ea hy wil graag aan die onlangse fietstoer deelneem, was haar hart gevul met baie emosies, waaronder opwinding, dankbaarheid en verwondering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWanneer jy besef dat elke oomblik tel en dat jy self kan besluit hoeveel jy uit hierdie lewe gaan kry, is dit wonderlik om te sien dat jou kind ook besef jy kan enigiets aanpak. Die uitkoms is minder belangrik as die wil om deel te neem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die fietstoer was \u2019n eerste vir Chris, want gewoonlik ry hy meestal bergfiets, maar hy het uitgesien na die uitdaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDit was my eerste keer; ek het dit baie geniet \u2013 dit is \u2019n belewenis om saam met so baie mense fiets te ry. Gelukkig was die weer lekker!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk wou baie graag rugby speel, maar ongelukkig mag ek nie. Ek het ook vir \u2019n tyd hokkie gespeel, maar fietsry is my gunstelingsport.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vir hom is daar geen verskil tussen sy \u201cou hart\u201d en \u201cnuwe hart\u201d nie, maar hy spot dat hy en die nuwe hart wel goed oor die weg kom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy gesondheid is goed en ek word al hoe sterker en daarom is dit vir my so lekker om aan sport deel te neem. Ek is baie lief vir 4\u00d74-avonture en die natuur. Ek wil moontlik n\u00e1 matriek na \u2019n veldskool gaan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris sal vir die res van sy lewe elke dag anti-verwerpingsmedikasie moet neem, s\u00ea Celeste, asook \u2019n jaarlikse biopsie om die verwerping te bepaal en sodoende die medikasie te bestuur. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Die familie is ook nog in kontak met die skenker se familie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOns weet dat dit \u2019n meisie van 17 jaar uit Welkom was wie sy hart geskenk het. 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