Heart transplant stories

Amber, heart recipient

Because of my donor, I am able to have a second chance at life and that it something I will cherish for a lifetime.

Almost immediately after Skylar was born, his heart began to fail, so an emergency open-heart operation was performed.

“A new year, a new heart, a new life.”

“Someone said ‘yes’ to donating life so that I might have a second chance.”

In 2011, 4-week-old Benjamin developed what his parents thought was the flu.

Siblings Zion and Zhania both received heart transplants and made history.

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