Deryl McKenzie has been a Santa Claus for nearly four decades, but needed a heart...
Kingwood resident Deryl McKenzie has been a Santa Claus for nearly four decades, but needed a heart transplant in 2018. He shows off his home which is filled with a Christmas tree that stays up year-round; a wardrobe for Santa and Mrs. Claus; and Santa trinkets and decorations galore.Everyone who knows Kingwood resident Deryl McKenzie calls him “Santa.”
Doctors at Memorial Hermann managed to find him a new heart, with the transplant taking place that fall. He returned home in time for Christmas the same year. He chastised the manager, who asked him whether he could do better. McKenzie returned that weekend as Santa. He’s been doing it ever since. Of all his treasures, McKenzie’s favorite is the Santa Claus wreath perched on his front door. “He just looks the way a Santa should look,” he explained. “He’s so jolly.”
“I didn’t think the diabetes meant anything because I didn’t ever have anything wrong,” he said. “I didn’t have any highs, and I didn’t have any lows.” “He had a tremendous weight loss of more than 50 pounds, to the point where he was eligible for transplantation,” Nathan said. Doctors promised he’d recover in time to be discharged before Christmas. In the operating room before the surgery, McKenzie said he wanted to sing a song, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.”The Memorial Hermann team kept the promise. McKenzie returned home one week before Christmas.McKenzie continued to lose weight after his transplant and is now down to 169 pounds, but he continued to have health problems of a different kind.
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