{"id":655815,"date":"2026-06-24T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655815\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:15:10","slug":"heart-and-lung-transplant-recipient-marks-operation-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655815\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart and lung transplant recipient marks operation milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A woman who received a life-saving heart and lung transplant 25 years ago said every day since her operation &#8220;has been a gift&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Natasha Graham, 51, was born with a major heart defect, which led to secondary lung damage, with her parents warned she may not live to see her first birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Graham and her family will mark the anniversary of her operation with a charity concert at The Salvation Army Hall in Wellingborough on 27 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she hoped the event could raise &#8220;vital funds&#8221; for Harefield Hospital in London where her transplant was carried out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salvationarmy.org.uk\/news\/sa-member-celebrates-25-years-life-saving-heart-and-lung-transplant\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The celebration concert, external<\/a> will feature performances from the Ynysowen Male Choir and soprano Emma Davis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Graham continued: &#8220;Reaching 25 years since my transplant is something I will never take for granted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This celebration is my way of saying thank you to the incredible staff at Harefield Hospital, to my family and friends who have supported me, and to everyone who has helped make this journey possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who received a life-saving heart and lung transplant 25 years ago said every day since her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-655815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}