Alltruenews

Walk, leave the house, take a shower, dress myself, travel, basically lead a normal life.

I have experienced slight changes in food cravings and I have had more 'surface emotions.' Truthfully, I liken these changes to the two major surgeries, anesthesia and life renewal than to any other thing. My donor was very different from me. He was 25 and a sports hero in is town. I'm 52 and very bookish. Sports are not part of my life.

Regarding the feeling of my life ending, it all happened so slowly that you kind of got used to it. By the time a heart became available, I was so desperate that I would have let them put a monkey heart in me. I wasn't very scared... more excited I guess.

They do an autopsy on it and then it's burned with hospital waste.

They never gave me the chance.

I've always been.