New Heart - Perry, Dion
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Dion Perry's doctor initially suspected he had asthma upon hearing he did not feel well. So, he was sent to the local hospital for a chest X-ray and a lung function test. The results were definitive: He did not have asthma. The mystery was solved when his doctor placed her fingers on his wrist to feel his pulse. She told him his heart was beating out of step before returning with a senior doctor, who gave him a referral to a cardiologist. A few days later, the author was breathlessly trying to chainsaw up, split, and stack some wood from some logs he'd dropped in the yard a couple of months…mehr

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Dion Perry's doctor initially suspected he had asthma upon hearing he did not feel well. So, he was sent to the local hospital for a chest X-ray and a lung function test. The results were definitive: He did not have asthma. The mystery was solved when his doctor placed her fingers on his wrist to feel his pulse. She told him his heart was beating out of step before returning with a senior doctor, who gave him a referral to a cardiologist. A few days later, the author was breathlessly trying to chainsaw up, split, and stack some wood from some logs he'd dropped in the yard a couple of months prior. Later that afternoon, not feeling well, he went to see an acupuncturist who wanted to take him straight to Goulburn Hospital. Instead, he went home, only to be phoned by a doctor who sent an ambulance to pick him up. It was the beginning of a journey with lots of twists and turns that left him with a new heart more than two years later.
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Dion Perry is an Australian who was born in Townsville, Queensland. He spent the first eight years of his life living in a caravan and travelling around the eastern side of Australia before moving to Tasmania where he lived on the Furenuau Group Island, Clarke Island for six years. After high school he completed a three year traineeship in pulp and papermaking at Australian Newsprint Mill at Boyer, near New Norfolk. Having moved to George Town in northern Tasmania he worked at Comalco in Bell Bay where he worked at a potline operater and operated heavy machinery including overhead cranes for seven and a half years. Having left he attended university in Hobart, where he did a BA with majors in sociology and Aboriginal studies. He writes mainly speculative fiction in the genres of science fiction and fantasy, but he also writes autobiographies. In May of 2021, he was diagnosed with viral myocarditis, and in September of 2023, he underwent a heart transplant. While the transplant was successful, the antirejection drugs destroyed his kidneys, and he now undergoes haemodialysis three times a week. He lives in Crookwell in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales with his wife, dog, and cat.