It was three years ago on this show that we ran an interview with a friend of mine, Jeff Siddqui, about his heart transplant; what it was like to go through a ten-hour operation and wake up 2 and a half days later with a stranger’s heart in your chest.
what it was like to go through a ten-hour operation and wake up 2 and a half days later with a stranger’s heart in your chest.“Essentially, I said, if it’s your will that I die, then I’m at peace with it,” Siddqui said. “But if I’m to survive help me help someone else as well.”He also told me back then he was curious to know whose heart was now beating in his chest:
“If it was up to me in this, we weren’t in the middle of this COVID crisis we would have met already,” Corrie said. “I can’t wait for the opportunity to actually shake his hand, give him a hug.”
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