Liver transplant patient returns to work
Progress-Index | Patrick Kane
Photo: Patrick Kane/Progress-Index Photo Willie Cottle, left, is pictured in the warehouse of Mark Bric Display Corp. in Prince George County with company president Larry Ragland yesterday. Cottle had a liver transplant in April, and was welcomed back to his job as warehouse supervisor with a luncheon.
PRINCE GEORGE - Upon his first breath out of anesthesia, Willie Cottle could tell the difference. The liver of a late Virginia Beach woman was already restoring his body, about 24 hours after doctors at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center had undertaken a 14-hour organ transplant.
"Instantly, I was able to feel the difference," Cottle said. "My skin, everything, it began to bounce back."
Bounce back, he did.
Cottle, who lives in Hopewell, had come out from anesthesia in a day rather than the typical three. His hospital stay was a week, instead of the typical month.
Five months, one week and two days after he left work at Mark Bric Display Corp. in Prince George County to undergo the procedure, he was back on his feet as warehouse supervisor.
"But who's counting?" asked company president Larry D. Ragland, who has led the business to support Cottle and raise awareness of organ donation.
Cottle's journey to the operating table began 30 years ago.
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Photo: Patrick Kane/Progress-Index Photo Willie Cottle, left, is pictured in the warehouse of Mark Bric Display Corp. in Prince George County with company president Larry Ragland yesterday. Cottle had a liver transplant in April, and was welcomed back to his job as warehouse supervisor with a luncheon.
PRINCE GEORGE - Upon his first breath out of anesthesia, Willie Cottle could tell the difference. The liver of a late Virginia Beach woman was already restoring his body, about 24 hours after doctors at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center had undertaken a 14-hour organ transplant.
"Instantly, I was able to feel the difference," Cottle said. "My skin, everything, it began to bounce back."
Bounce back, he did.
Cottle, who lives in Hopewell, had come out from anesthesia in a day rather than the typical three. His hospital stay was a week, instead of the typical month.
Five months, one week and two days after he left work at Mark Bric Display Corp. in Prince George County to undergo the procedure, he was back on his feet as warehouse supervisor.
"But who's counting?" asked company president Larry D. Ragland, who has led the business to support Cottle and raise awareness of organ donation.
Cottle's journey to the operating table began 30 years ago.
Read more
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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