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Against All Odds, 14 Year Old Lives Without A Heart For 118 Days by PilotOz(m): 7:44pm On Jul 14, 2013 |
Fourteen-year-old D’Zhana Simmons needed a transplant due to her abnormally large heart. After the first surgery, doctors were left with no choice but to remove the new organ, which failed to function properly. Unfortunately, they did not have another heart available for Simmons. It was decided that with the help of two artifical pumps they will keep blood flowing in Simmons’ body. It worked, and lasted for four months. Usually when an artifical heart is used to sustain a patient, the patient’s own heart is left in the body. But this was not the case for Simmons. For 118 days, she lived without a heart and solely on the pumps. Finally when a heart arrived, she received a successful transplant.
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Re: Against All Odds, 14 Year Old Lives Without A Heart For 118 Days by gluv01(f): 9:23pm On Jul 14, 2013 |
Wow! God's grace and medical facilities |
Re: Against All Odds, 14 Year Old Lives Without A Heart For 118 Days by PilotOz(m): 10:19pm On Jul 14, 2013 |
yes. Its a miracle |
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