Richard Burbedge [corr] stepped onto court for the Transplant Sports UK Volleyball tournament at Reading's Rivermead Leisure Centre, Reading, on Saturday, 17 months after undergoing a double lung transplant.
The 31-year-old from Tilehurst, representing Harefield Hospital in Middlesex where doctors operated on him in June last year, played in a mixed team of fellow transplant patients from around the country.
The IT systems analyst who was put on the national donor waiting list 10 months earlier after lung complications caused by cystic fibrosis, said: "Days like this make me realise how the operation has transformed my life. When I was ill I was so out of breath I struggled to tie my shoelaces or clean my teeth. If I had waited much longer I would have died.
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