Updated Tuesday, December 14, 2010

My name is Andrew Downs

I was born with two holes in my heart.

I had my first operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in 1967.

In the early seventies I had two more operations at Hammersmith Hospital in London to finish correcting the holes in my heart.

I am fit and can do anything including cycling and church bellringing

I trained at Braintree college for one year as a chef and have worked in Colchester and Norwich before moving to Cambridgeshire and started to work at Papworth Hospital about 18 years ago and Progressed to second Chef second chef. In the last five years I have been working in the catering store where I help to set up all the on line ordering.

My main interest is church bellringing and ring at Meldreth and many other towers which include Duxford and Ickelton.

I know run the ring at Meldreth.

I am a member of the Zipper Society of Bellringers.

The idea of the Zipper Society is to show that you can do anything after heart surgery