3RD MOST FASCINATING MEDICAL MIRACLE.

A TEEN WHO LIVEÐ 118 DAYS
WITHOUT HEART.
It was
supposed to be a great day
for 14-year-old
D'zhana Simmon,
who received
a transplant
to replace her
enlarged heart.
However,
her dream turned into
a
nightmare when
THE NEW heart failed to function properly.
Doctors had to remove
the new organ,but without another
available
and D'zhana weakened from the surgery.
They had to
come up with a stopgap measure;
two artificial
pumps
that keep the
blood flowing in her
body for close to 4
months.
The feat was newsworthy partially because of D'zhana's age&
partially because
when an
artificial heart
is used to
sustain a patient,
the
patient's own
heart
is usually left
in the body.
Finally,on OCT,29,
D'zhana received
another heart
transplant,
and it was so successful that
she had a
kidney transplant the very
next day.
This girl is a
cat with
118 lives.