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If you`ve ever left something behind at Redcliffe hospital, chances are Hospital Volunteer Pamela is keeping it safe until you can be reunited with it. 🧺

Many items like glasses, keys and clothes are being handed in with metal water bottles and phone chargers being some of the most common items awaiting their owner’s return.

“It’s understandable, they’re easy to leave behind. People often sit down at the chairs at the front of the hospital and leave without them,” Pamela said.

“People leave things in other places too – like on the shuttle buggy from the car park.”

Pam reassures anyone who may have left something behind at Redcliffe Hospital that they hold onto the items for a few months, so there is plenty of time to collect them! 👕 ...

“I used to be pretty good at golf and was a mollydooker, playing off a handicap of four on my best days. My father was at war during a lot of my childhood, and mum spent much of her time around horses doing dressage where she would train them on the farm. I would run around with my sisters, one of them was a very good athlete, and I could never catch her! For work I delivered produce in a four-tonner, it was hard work but I was glad to be able to come home to my daughters safely. I love jokes, and steak and sausages, and I’m a proud cockroach!”

💭 Monday Mantra, Brighton Campus resident Kevin, 90🏌️‍♂️🏇🏉 ...

Whilst many hearts will be won with roses and chocolate today, the Cardiothoracic Surgery team at TPCH are focused on something even more powerful - giving hearts a second chance at life! ❤️

Dr Nikunj, a Cardiothoracic Surgeon at TPCH says that heart transplants make up some of his most complicated yet rewarding work, not only due to the extreme precision required but also the levels of coordination necessary amongst the team.

“Being a part of the most profound act of altruism that the donor has agreed to, often the recipient has run out of all the options medical science has to offer and this is their final hope," he said.

“Not many cardiac surgeons get to do transplants, it is the pinnacle of cardiac surgery.

“You as a donor save one life, but the patient`s whole family is impacted, and it improves everyone’s life.”

A big Shoutout Saturday to Dr Nikunj and the TPCH team on their work with our cardiac patients, and to all the organ donors out there. 🫀👏 ...