12/23/2023 0 Comments Andy king siblingsMelbourne is great place to live, better than Sydney in my opinion except for the lack of icons such as the Harbour, the Opera House and the Bridge, though the "G" might come close. We spent fifteen months in Sydney, were there for the Olympics, and, although I love the City we were glad to be moving. The health requirements meant that this was a protracted process and took several months to go through. We leapt at it however it was complicated by my visa, which was specific to having to be transferred to an intermediary company. The opportunity arose to move to Melbourne to join Jo's parents' family business as their CFO. Sydney wasn't good for them, very humid, crap job, long hours. So as time passed my lungs gradually got worse. It would seem that presented with me, without knowing my history in detail, the chap from Sydney leapt to the conclusion that I had suffered a catastrophic decline not really the case, rather that I had been able to cope extremely well with such a low lung function, though there probably had been a significant drop in the twelve months before coming to Australia.Īnyway, we didn't like him much, and when we moved to Melbourne we got on with the team much better which was a good thing really because we would come to rely on them very heavily. Now I had noticed whilst climbing mountains in Scotland earlier in 2000 that such an activity was a tad challenging, but hardly cause for major surgery. This was quite a shock to Jo and I, and indeed to my UK Consulting team too (Again, that I had a Consulting team in the UK might be a surprise to some such subterfuge! Explains my penchant for flu jabs and keeping warm etc. The fact that with my Condition I could one day require a lung transplant was not news to me, however the fact that I was eligible there and then was. Having tested my lung function he broke the news that at under 30% of normal I met the criteria for one. Our first serious hint came way back in July 2000 when, having moved to Sydney, I introduced myself to the local Consultant to touch base with him regarding my health. So, I guess a bilateral (double) lung transplant came as somewhat of a surprise to most of you! It's been on the cards for some time and we had been planning our lives accordingly. The Biggest events in the last two years have of course been the birth of our daughter Emma Claire and the matter of my small and trifling lifesaving operation. Thank you Andy for allowing Sue Tamblyn to pass this on for our readers. (Following are excerpts from a newsletter that Andy King sent to his friends overseas.
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