42 — Wednesday, January 17, 1996 ~ North Shore News

New heart just
keeps ticking

A 72-YEAR-OLD medical
marvel celebrated a hearty
[Oth anniversary Friday with
SQ friends and family mem-
vers at his West Vancouver
hese

stan Noble

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~ws Reporter

“Things are going great.” said
Daniel Izzard, formerly the oldest
heart-transplant patient in Canadian
history.

The impressionist painter was a
cause celebre in 1986, when the
otherwise-healthy 62-year-old
became a guinea pig to test whether
people over 55 should receive new
tickers.

“L was the first to break that
sound barrier," he said Monday.

The non-smoker and social
drinker said he was pegged as the
ideal candidate for the experiment
because he was in good physical
shape. However, his heart was
falling victim to idiopathic car-
diomyopathy, a virus that kills heart
tissue and eventually, said Izzard,
the victim.

His journey to University
Hospital in London, Ont. received
wide media coverage nationally,
and netted him letters from around
the world.

Back then, said Izzard, heart
transplants for older people were a
. major feat. “Nowadays,” continued
the medical trendsetter, “heart trans-
plants are just standard therapy.”

lezard_ said
he still takes
drugs — every
day to reduce
his | immune
system to the
point it won't
reject the
donated organ,
which came
from a young
girl, And he
gets occasion-
al check-ups at
Vancouver
General
Hospital.

Other than that, no restrictions
are placed on his activities, except
by Izzard, who acknowledges he —
fike many people — should exercise
more,

“Fm a painter and | get caught up
in work more than anything else.”

“I don't feel my age and people
tell nie T don't look my age.” Izzard
said. “Maybe they're being polite.”

Before the operation, Izzard was
bedridden.

Izzard counis his blessings for
the operation.

“It's 10 years of life 1 wouldn't
have had otherwise,” he said.

Since the operation, he's remar-
ried and continued his now 40-year
professional painting career.

“Quite successful, | guess you'd
call me,” said the non-starving artist.

His new life is a full life. he
added.

Examples of Izzard’s work hang
in the Harrison Galleries in West
Vancouver and Vancouver.

DANIEL IZZARD

WEST VANCOUVER — MASONIC HALL
1763 Bellevue & 17th

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The 1996

Vancouver Motorcycle Show
“DAYTONA BEACH NORTH?”

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Custom and Rare Vintage
Motorcycles,

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ataresele

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RIH

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“Plan to attend for the whole day”

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