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Heart Transplant Gives Triathlete The Gift of Life Heart Transplant Gives Triathlete The Gift of Life
Heart Transplant Gives Triathlete The Gift of Life Battling a life-threatening illness is challenging enough, but when confronted with a second debilitating health condition, Elisabeth Kepley knew she was in for a different kind of fight.  “It almost took me out,” said Kepley of her Stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis in 2006. “My organs were shutting down, and I was very sick,” recalled the single mother of three. “Ten years later, though in remission, I learned that the chemotherapy used to treat my cancer had nearly destroyed my heart.” In fall 2016, Kepley was visiting her son in Colorado when her heart began to fail…

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