LETTERKENNY man Seamus Patton is this evening on his way home to his beloved town following a successful heart transplant.
Seamus (57), who is a Garda Detective in the town, has spent seven months in Dublin’s Mater Hospital waiting on the lifesaving surgery.
Speaking to the Donegal News this evening as he travelled home in the car with his wife Katrina and daughter Kathryn, a jubilant Mr Patton said: “I’m just on the road home now. I’m feeling great.
“I was in hospital for nearly seven months, so it was time to get out,” he joked.
“I went in on September 12 and got out today.”
Mr Patton said he is recovering well but will be taking each day as it comes.
“Things have gone really well. I’m hitting all the markers.
“I’m fully discharged from hospital now, but it will be a bit of recovery still, big time. It’s very early days but I’m thriving.”
Mr Patton said he was “lucky” to have had the transplant, and to be recovering so well.
He thanked his family and all of Donegal for their tremendous and continued support.
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