2022 February #BeTheGift Connections: "Straight From The Heart"
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In recognition of National Heart Month and Valentine’s Day, we have a couple of special stories on February's #BeTheGift Connections. Marcia Cunningham, a heart recipient, shares her transplant journey of waiting for and receiving a new heart. Dr. Jonathan Menachem, a transplant cardiologist with Vanderbilt Health Transplant Center discusses the strides that are being made in the field of heart transplants, resulting in more lives being saved. Plus, Bonnie Chakravorty and Doug Turley, a couple who met and fell in love while they were both sick and in need of a transplant join us to share their transplant and romance journey. Register as an organ and tissue donor at BeTheGiftToday.com. 
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