That's nothing, I once went an entire day without snark. Story out of Michigan:
Stan Larkin lived for 555 days without a heart while he waited for a transplant.
Then this May, his doctors at the University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center found him a matching donor heart and took the 25-year-old off of the artificial heart device which had kept him alive for more than a year and a half.
Larkin's heart specialist, Dr. Jonathan Haft, an associate professor of cardiac surgery at the University of Michigan, said when he first saw Larkin, the young man was very sick.
"When I first met Stan, he was dying in our ICU, and on lots of life support. He was skeptical of the artificial device -- of always being tied to the device components -- but he knew this was the best possible way of giving him time and getting him in shape for transplant," Haft told CBS News.
Larkin was the first patient in Michigan ever discharged with a SynCardia temporary total artificial heart. He had to carry part of the life-saving system around with him in a backpack. Cont.
Story from - CBS News
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