Dispatches from the Heart: Transplanting One Heart and Transforming Many Others

You Go Nowhere by Accident

Then Ed asked me, “So, David, what happens if the new heart doesn’t start?”

Well, the new heart started, and the story goes on. Ed is eternally grateful to his donor and the family of his donor. But the best part of the story is the story itself. Ed and Paige’s journey together, their courage and love for each other, the community that we all shared and continue to share—it was, and is, a remarkable experience for so many of us. Someone should write a book about it.

—David Terreson Austin, Texas