Though Katie Watkins looked healthy on the outside, her weak heart couldn’t sustain her much longer. Organ donation provided new life.
428 Major Miller turned 40 in June. A few months earlier, he received a new heart and renewed life.
630 Rick Eding learned he had a failing heart in his early 30s. And now, exactly 3,676 days after a procedure to restore his quality of life, he’s unstoppable.
283 Blindsided by a life-threatening diagnosis, a Central Michigan University student beats the odds and lives to receive a heart transplant.
498 Facing end-stage heart failure at age 19, Nick Jaenicke held on long enough to receive a donor heart—just like his brother and grandfather before him.
1.1k After transplant surgery, a woman plans to have her diseased organ plastinated so it can serve as a teaching specimen to help others.
1.6k Swimming in the World Transplant Games lets Fred Nelis test his limits.
329 Two families connected by organ donation meet to honor the gift of a young man's heart, now living on in another.
1.9k Fabiola Garnett suffered cardiac arrest at age 13. Two decades later, she received the gift of a heart.
694 The 100th lung transplant allows Ascenda Denton to breathe easily, free of chronic infections and scarring caused by cystic fibrosis.
1.0k A milestone operation: 100th transplant is also Elaine Slikkers’ second miracle and third birthday.
1.4k Scott Kovacs' heart beat a path toward almost certain death. With a new heart, he's now running toward his future.
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