Javier Esparza, Transplant Recipient

I've been blessed with the gift of life...

Hi my story is an eight year long battle two heart attacks three stents pacemaker defibrillator, finally ending up at Mayo Clinic Hospital 7-11 -11 received artificial heart two weeks later. I was hooked up to big blue, then transferred over to the freedom driver which is a backpack from July till Thanksgiving day I had an artificial heart heart. Thanksgiving day 2011 I received my new donor heart. Finally the time came for me to go home, right after Christmas. I have been blessed with the gift of life, I thank my Donor family by the way I have not met yet, I thank the doctors and nurses and especially God who watched over all of us.