Indiana mother hears late daughter’s heartbeat again through meeting with heart transplant recipient
Amber Morgan, from South Bend, left, listens to her daughters heart beat in Tom Johnson, from Kankakee, at Travelodge by Wyndham in Downtown Chicago on Nov. 19, 2022.
The Indiana Donor Network coordinates fewer than 30 of these meetings between organ transplant recipients and donor families each year. They only occur when donor families consent to meet the recipients. Upon seeing each other for the first time, Morgan and Tom embraced each other tightly. Morgan was then able to take a pink stethoscope and put it to Tom’s chest, hearing a sound she didn’t know she would ever get to hear again. She hugged him again as she listened.Tom first sent a letter to Morgan around Christmastime in 2019. He said it took him a long time to write it after a “challenging recovery,” but he wanted to share his gratitude for the family’s decision to donate.
When a smiling Avery got take her turn to listen to the heart, Morgan asked her what it sounded like. Avery mimicked the thumping sound and handed the stethoscope to Tom for him to listen too.Avery replied that she was in heaven. When Morgan asked, “Where’s her heart?” she proudly responded by pointing to Tom’s chest.
“She’s living through him,” Morgan said. “Now she’s able do all the things that she couldn’t really do for similar reasons as him. She would also run out of breath, but hers was asthma.”
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