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8-Year-Old 'Warrior' From Region Needs Second Heart Transplant 8-Year-Old 'Warrior' From Region Needs Second Heart Transplant
8-Year-Old 'Warrior' From Region Needs Second Heart Transplant The community is rallying around the mother of an 8-year-old boy from the region who is waiting to undergo his second heart transplant. Rensselaer County resident Nicole Miller, of the town of Nassau, turned to GoFundMe for help after learning that her son Damien’s heart was failing two years after the boy was diagnosed with coronary artery disease. It marked the second time the young boy’s life was upended by heart issues, Miller recounted on the GoFundMe. When he was just 10 months old, Damien was airlifted to Boston Children’s Hospital after his heart stopped while being treated at Alb…

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by Michael Mashburn
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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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