'The day my daughter had a heart transplant': Roker woman Cheryl Archbold has re-lived an astonishing day
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00:00She's got a massive piece of machinery, this Berlin heart had to be taken away.
00:07All of that surgery had to take place before the heart had even arrived in this country.
00:12The heart came from abroad.
00:13So, you know, before the heart had even touched down in Newcastle, she'd had the Berlin heart
00:18removed and she was fitted on bypass whilst the wait for this heart to arrive.
00:23We waited in the parents' room, the room of doom, thinking, is it the room of doom again?
00:28And the surgeon came in with just a smile, just a smile on her face.
00:33It was just, just believable.
00:35Could you have thought it would be that?
00:39She was flat out, absorded beyond belief, just, yeah.
00:43The surgeon explained that everything had went really well, you know, that the heart
00:47was beautiful.
00:48She described the heart as beautiful.
00:51That's such a surgeon thing to say, isn't it?
00:54But it is a beautiful heart.