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One moment, 24-year-old economics graduate Geoff Lester was refereeing a social basketball game in Brisbane with friends while making plans to move to London to become a banker. Two hours later, he was going under the knife for 12 hours of open-heart surgery to fix a catastrophic aortic dissection that could have killed him. He nearly didn’t go to the hospital with the mild symptoms of dizziness he was experiencing — despite a tingly arm and feeling “a bit odd” he was young, fit and healthy.
And he has done this while also continuing to deal with his own health struggles— a second open-heart surgery 10 weeks after the first to deal with another rupture, two strokes, an infected heart valve and two more open-heart surgeries due to aneurysms of the coronary artery. Just three weeks ago, he had holes drilled into his head to release pressure from a brain bleed. He’ll be back at work on Monday. “I don’t waste a moment,” Lester explained.
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