Before My 19-Year-Old Son Died, He Donated His Heart to an 18-Year-Old Girl—Then Her Mother Handed Me a Letter: “Mom, There’s Something You Need to Know About Her”
Frequent blood work.
Rejection monitoring.
Physical rehabilitation.
Medication side effects.
No heroic leap from deathbed to art school in two weeks.
A transplant is not resurrection.
It is another form of serious medicine.
A chance.