Twenty years after he was told he’d need a heart transplant, Keith Narramore became the recipient of Queensland’s 300th donor heart. Good heart failure treatment, exercise and determination allowed Keith to reach the still young (especially at heart) age of 58 before he could no longer postpone the life saving surgery. When he was 34, Keith had the first of three heart attacks. A few years later he got a bug which weakened his heart to the point where he needed three weeks in hospital before being transferred to The Prince Charles Hospital for transplant referral. At the time he was told he might be able to delay the need for two or three years. “I said to myself ‘no way in the world’. I was only 41 at the time,” Keith says. “So I got myself fit and with medication and exercise, I kept ok.” A defibrillator gave him another six years before he was relisted for transplant mid 2008. Five months later, thanks to the generosity of his donor and their family, Keith helped The Prince Charles Hospital reach its milestone of 300 hearts. Already an avid boxer, runner and weight lifter, Keith plans to buy a boat so he can finally get back to fishing.