Four months without a heart

[madokie]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_he_me/med_artificial_heart;_ylt=A2KIKvq2cyVJq2YBnxms0NUE

MIAMI – D'Zhana Simmons says she felt like a "fake person" for 118 days when she had no heart beating in her chest. "But I know that I really was here," the 14-year-old said, "and I did live without a heart."

As she was being released Wednesday from a Miami hospital, the shy teen seemed in awe of what she's endured. Since July, she's had two heart transplants and survived with artificial heart pumps — but no heart — for four months between the transplants.

Last spring D'Zhana and her parents learned she had an enlarged heart that was too weak to sufficiently pump blood. They traveled from their home in Clinton, S.C. to Holtz Children's Hospital in Miami for a heart transplant.

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For now, though, D'Zhana is looking forward to celebrating another milestone. On Saturday, she turns 15 and plans to spend the day riding in a boat off Miami's coast.

[ThatsMyBarack]

1. I just finished reading this article.

That kind of thing should never happen to a kid. :(

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Dick Cheney has done it for 67 years.

[baldguy]

3. ba da Ba

[madokie]

4. Good point

except'n of course the different kinds of hearts