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Summarize   ﻿ ﻿   My person is Don Esmore, he is the leader of the heart and lung surgery at the Alfred hospital. He has been nominated for a community award by the city of Melbourne. Behind the scenes no one knows that he is battling his own life threatening illness. In 2002 he was diagnosed with myeloma, an incurable cancer of the bone marrow. Prof Esmore under went a bone marrwo trantsplant and continues to take medication and have reguler blood test. Over the years the treatment has improved but he is still suffering side effects, for example he broke both his legs last year because the medication make his bones brittle. Prof Esmore is putting his pain side away and saving peoples lifes. Prof Esmore said that his illness has made him a bit tougher. Don has shown alot of courage by putting his pain aside to save others. Prof Esmore has peformended more than 600 heart or lung transplants, 800 cases of open heart surgery, and implated 200 artifcial hearts. Don never gives up. He keeps on going no matter what people say. He said the reson why I got into this bussniss was because he wanted to save lifes.