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'I Have A Future': NY Mother Jubilant For Life-Saving Heart Transplant In Mass
A woman from upstate New York has a new lease on life after she received a crucial heart transplant surgery in Massachusetts at the end of last month. Erica Raspante, of Oriskany Falls, NY, got the life-saving news that a heart was donated on her behalf on Sunday, April 30, according to a GoFundMe campaign. The organ came from another family's loved one, and their generosity left Raspante speechless. "I have no words. Not sure I ever will," she said in a Facebook post. "I am alive because someone chose to donate. I’m alive because God chose this path for me. I have a future." It’s o…
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Boston Helps Man With Congenital Heart Defect Get Life-Saving Procedure
February is American Heart Month, and some Bostonians are celebrating by donating to help a young man who is undergoing an experimental, life-saving heart procedure. Cole Cand was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, a defect which affects blood flow through the heart because the left side of the heart was not formed properly, according to a GoFundMe created to raise money for his treatment. Doctors warned Cand's parents that he could only make it a few hours, or overnight, when he was young. Despite his early prognosis, he has lived to be 26 years old, although he has been in "inh…