CARDINIA Waters Village Bowls Club member Mick Knight last week competed in the Australian Transplant Games held in Melbourne.
Mick is the recipient of a liver transplant and entered in the games’ lawn bowls events. He performed superbly, coming away with a silver medal in the singles event and a bronze medal in the pairs.
In an uncanny coincidence, Mick’s wife Lydia is also a liver transplant recipient. The need for their new livers was totally unrelated.
Mick is an active volunteer at the Austin Liver Transplant Unit in Heidelberg and said it was one way that he could give back in some way for the second chance in life given to both he and Lydia.
Around the time of Lydia’s transplant, Mick met and became good friends with media personality Derryn Hinch, who had a liver transplant at the same time in 2011.
Hinch is now the Ambassador for the Victorian association.
