Steve was newly divorced and ready to start his life again but it was all taken away from him
A man said his life was “taken from him” after a minor surgery went “catastrophically wrong”. Steve Logan, 46, from Huyton, told the ECHO how he “died twice” on the operating table and was told he would need to learn to walk again after his keyhole surgery went wrong.
The 46-year-old, who moved to Australia in 2006 to live closer to his family over there, said: “Everything that could go wrong with the surgery did go wrong and I was in a coma for a while. When I woke up from the coma I found out I’d died twice on the table and the severity of the operation to save my life meant I would have to spend time in a wheelchair and learn to walk again. I have PTSD from it.
“Due to the amount of surgery I’ve had to have after I woke up, they said I would most likely never walk properly again. It was life ending for me, it was horrendous. I was 42 years old, newly divorced, freshly single, starting my life again and all of a sudden my life was taken from me.”
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Unfortunately, due to the trauma caused to Steve’s body in the operations, two years ago he was diagnosed with stage five, end of life kidney failure. He now has to have dialysis three times a week just to survive. He said: “I’ve not let this stop me.
“For the majority of my late teenage years I was the diving northern county champion for many years. I went professional for one year in my early twenties and then I retired due to an injury. I’d hurt my back in Sweden, I hit the water funny and hurt my back and decided I’d had enough and wanted to try something new.
“But after finding out about my kidney failure I made the decision that I wasn’t only going to learn to walk again, I was also going to go back and have another go at my diving, I wasn’t letting it stop me.
“Five weeks ago when I finally lost enough weight – I’ve lost 35 kilos, you put weight on being in a wheelchair – I finally returned to the diving boards. In four weeks I’m going to compete at the international diving games to raise money for kidney health Australia and awareness of kidney disease.”
Steve said: “It feels absolutely amazing to be back, it’s liberating, although there are down days when I’m on dialysis at home, tied to a machine for six hours a day, three days a week. But the feeling of diving from the top board is like Liverpool winning the premiership every time – I’m still a huge Liverpool fan.”
The 46-year-old wants to create awareness of kidney disease, he said: “It’s called the silent killer because you don’t show any symptoms until it’s too late, until you need life saving dialysis.
“I want to raise awareness and inspire people to not feel so down. When you think you have nothing left in the tank you have reserves that you never knew you had.”
