Life with a New Heart

My step mom’s name is Toni. When i met here she told me that she had a heart transfer. Heart  tranplant is when one person passaway and decied to give them their haert. Toni was 12 yers old when she had the  transplant done. Her heart was three times to big,it beat to slow or to fast. Before her transplant she had a pacemacer and debfiblator. Toni tookover 25 pils a day. She was not able to etand school so she had a techer come to teach her for a houre for three houres a week. She had to be a healthy weight.she had to wait and live  for three months, becuse thay had to put her on a special medicine. Which moved her higher up on the donation list. She was hooked up to the iv pole and she had to take to take it everway. The surgry took five hours and she has to take anti-rejection medicine. After she was done with the surgry she had to wait for a month for she can get out of the hospitol, and she had to wear a medical mask were over she went but they lifed so far that they had to live at mcdonald house in philly. Evrey week she had to go to the hodpitol and get a biopsie and catherization to make sure your body did not reject the heart. Catherization cheks the prusherand blude flo of the heart. Biopsie is wen they take a microscopis piece of your heart and send it off to the lab to make sure there so rejection. For the fisrt month she had biopsie and catherization knew she only hase to go onc a year for testing. Sum of the test she has is blude wor, x-ray ekg, echocardigram. Ahe no longer needs biopsie or catherization unless the heart docter thinks she needs it. She is down for only taking ten pils a day. Toni was able to graduate high school and nersing school. On march sixth she wili have here transplate for 17 years. She is a nurse,mom and a wife like a normall life thanks to someone who donated a heart to her.