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From death, a new life blooms.
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The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 26-JAN-05 |
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access |
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Full Article Title: From death, a new life blooms.(Health)(A woman who died after a transplant gave another the courage to seek surgery) |
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Article Excerpt
Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard
There were the years of constant fatigue and shortness of breath, the heart attack at age 11, the collapse from exhaustion on her high school graduation night. And still, Krystal Nichols wasn't sure she wanted the risky heart-lung transplant that could change her life.
And then she got the phone call from Crystal Houser.
Houser, 21, made the call last spring from Stanford University Medical Center, where she was recuperating from her own rare heart-lung transplant surgery.
"The first thing I asked her was, `How bad is the scar?' ' Nichols said Tuesday at her grandmother's home in Eugene. "She said it was hardly noticeable, and that the surgery didn't hurt all that much, and how good it was to be able to run around without getting out of breath, and how she was wearing her mom out for the first time.
"She was just so excited about her life."
The two young women learned they had even more in common than their first names and medical history. They discovered they both liked to draw, and were considering careers in psychology. They liked to swim, and talked of a joint swim party once Houser...
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