"It isn't until later that you go, 'Oh, wow! That was a lot to cope with.'"
"I am living proof of the impact organ donors can have."
"You don't understand what it's like for other people … until you go and do something, say a walk up a hill, and everyone is at the top of the hill, and you are only 10 per cent of the way up."
"The most common way of preserving the hearts used to be in an esky with some ice,"he said.
"With registration stagnating at 41 per cent of eligible NSW residents, and thousands waiting for transplants, each registration can be the difference between life and death for people on the waitlist,"Ms Celcer said.