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Heart to Heart with Anna

Heart to Heart with Anna

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November 26th 2013: Organ Donation and Transplantation

Every ten minutes another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list. More than 120,000 men, women and children currently need lifesaving organ transplants. The United Network for Organ Sharing also reports that an average of 18 people die each day from a lack of available organs for transplant. Jessica Pearlman and Anthony Pugliese know what it’s like to be on that waiting list. They also know what it’s like to finally receive an organ that allows them to live another day. Emily Wiebke, Kathy Keller and Eileen Pearlman will share with us what it’s like to be the mother of a

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Eileen Pearlman

Eileen Pearlman has two daughters, Jessica and Amy Cowin. While pregnant with Jessica, she thought everything was fine. Jessica was born on June 7, 1983. Doctors began monitoring her heart due to an irregular heartbeat. Three days later, after extensive testing, she had emergency surgery because she had hypoplastic left heart syndrome. But nine years before Jessica was born, Eileen was already a practicing Speech/Language Pathologist. She began her career as a Speech/Language Pathologist in 1974 and she works primarily with students who have special or multiple needs.
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Jessica Cowin

Eileen Pearlman and Jessica Cowin: Eileen has two daughters, Jessica and Amy Cowin. While pregnant with Jessica, she thought everything was fine. Jessica was born on June 7, 1983.
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Emily Wiebke

Emily Wiebke: I have a wonderful daughter named Aryanna who was born on April 20, 2003. She was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy (where the heart becomes weakened and enlarged, unable to pump effectively) at 7.5 months of age.
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Kathy Keller

Kathy Keller: My 16-year-old son Garrett is a heart transplant recipient. He was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which required several open-heart surgeries.
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Anthony Pugliese

Anthony Pugliese: I was born in 1964 with a single ventricle heart, pulononary stenosis and transposition of the great arteries. I had my first open-heart surgery at age 10 months, my second at age 14 and my third and final open-heart surgery at age 20.
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