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Miracle in New Brunswick: Heart Transplant Recipient Goes Home

“Everyone has been great and has helped me get my life back. The doctors and nursing staff all really care. You can tell this is much more than just a job for them."
Dashawn Womack is thankful to be alive. Diagnosed with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy, the Trenton resident’s heart was ...
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A New Heart

“Everyone who took care of me did an amazing job.”
When heart failure struck an active husband and father, a transplant saved his life. Michal Duchnowski had just come home from a ...
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Heart Transplant Recipient Pays it Forward–Father Clark's Story

“I knew right away that I was where I needed to be. My experience there was head and shoulders above the care I had received anywhere else.”
With an active life that included participation in college athletics, the U.S. Navy, the Marine Corps, and 25 years as a priest, ...
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Two Second Chances At Life

"Heart and Kidney Transplant Recipient Gets Two Second Chances At Life"
Jean Smith lives by the phrase “live every day like your last” after going through radiation and chemotherapy for cancer and ...
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Heart Transplant Creates Brighter Future

Walter knew that his new heart was coming and he was right.
When Walter Porto walked into Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, doctors told him that he had six months to live. Doctors ...
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Kim Erin's Story

There are over a million words in the English language and not one comes close to expressing how I feel about the staff at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.

At the age of 18, I was diagnosed with a congenital heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - the same condition that ...
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A Heart Transplant Gives New Hope

"It’s amazing; I can go up and down stairs without having to catch my breath. I started doing exercises two days after the surgery. My energy level came right back.”
An inherited heart problem had taken a terrible toll on Barbara Schempp’s family: her 66-year-old brother died of it in 2010 and ...
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Heart Pump Powers the Man Who Runs Cyclone Roller Coaster

“When I am not managing the ride, I am thinking about managing the ride,” said Gerald. “It is important to be able to work while I wait for my transplant.”
Gerald , 66 of Staten Island, has been passionate about running the Cyclone rollercoaster at Coney Island for 35 years. With the ...
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New Jersey Resident Received Heart Transplant

When it was determined that Peter had end-stage heart failure but otherwise in reasonably good health, his name was added to the heart transplant list.
Waiting for a heart transplant and given only a few months to live, Peter optimistically ordered the tuxedo for his daughter’s ...
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