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Lodi Woman Shares Heart Transplant Story to Raise Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Lodi Woman Shares Heart Transplant Story to Raise Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness
Lodi Woman Shares Heart Transplant Story to Raise Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Story and photos courtesy of NJ Sharing Network Family and friends of Gina Westhoven love her energetic personality and zest for life. She takes pride in her life-saving work as an EMT with Englewood Volunteer Ambulance Corp. and as a business owner. She has a great love for traveling to some of the world’s most-beautiful beaches and enjoys chilling with her mom, family, friends and her 70-pound pit bull Micki. But four years ago, Gina began to face serious health issues for the first time in her life. She constantly felt zapped of energy, and, at times, she struggled to breathe and cou…

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by Valerie Musson
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GoFundMe Begun For Baby From Bloomfield With Rare Medical Condition GoFundMe Begun For Baby From Bloomfield With Rare Medical Condition
GoFundMe Begun For Baby From Bloomfield With Rare Medical Condition The family of a year-and-a-half-old baby girl have started a GoFundMe campaign to help defray medical expenses incurred as doctors treat her rare and potentially fatal medical condition.  Sawyer Jane Barrow was born last year with a condition known as vein of Galen malformation, in which veins don't connect to capillaries but directly to the great cerebral vein. The condition leads to an abnormally fast blood flow, which can lead to a variety of problems, including congestive heart failure, brain bleeding and seizures. Vein of Galen malformations are very rare, affecting just 1 in 3 mil…

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by Paul Milo