'As young and active as I was, and as healthy as I felt, I never thought my heart would fail me so suddenly – until it did.'
In mid-April 2017, I was working in a law firm in Elko, Nevada, and playing on a women’s league softball team. We had our first practice of the season. The fields were about 2 1/2 miles from my house, and it was a really nice day, so I figured I'd ride my bike to and from practice.
In the car on the way over, the pain really started. It began to radiate my shoulder down my arm, and into my chest. By the time I got to the hospital, I was in so much pain that I couldn't walk. I was lying on the table in the cath lab and I felt so hot. I remember telling the nurse,"I can't breathe." I heard the doctor say,"We need to intubate her." I was crying and saying,"No! I don't want that!" That's the last thing I remember for several days.My parents came out from California, and my sisters came from northern Utah and Nevada to be with me.
Caring for a new heart is a lot of work. I had to see my doctor often for heart biopsies, echocardiograms, and to make sure that my body wasn't rejecting the heart. I had to watch what I ate, and set alarms on my phone every 12 hours to remind me to take my medications. Hanging over me is the knowledge that I will eventually need another heart transplant. My doctors told me that transplanted hearts last, on average, 12 years. I'll also need a kidney transplant at some point, because the medication that I take to protect my heart damages my kidneys.When I was still in the ICU recovering from my transplant, I wrote a letter to my donor's family to let them know how grateful I was. Her name was Jessica. We had a lot in common. She was also 26 years old.
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