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Transplant During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Part Two

by Jodie Neukirch Elliott on Tuesday, May 11, 2021

I got home from my transplant in April and was so relieved. Yet COVID was still leading to changes that were unexpected. One of the things I came home with was a rollator, which is like a walker but with wheels. I needed to walk a half to a whole mile (cumulatively) a day, and we were lucky that April in North Carolina is beautiful.

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Transplant During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Part One

by Jodie Neukirch Elliott on Wednesday, Apr 28, 2021

I’m a first-time blogger for ACHA. I was born with Shone’s syndrome, went into heart failure at 23 after getting an artificial mitral valve, and was listed for transplant on my 37th birthday—February 28, 2020. While I had known for over a decade that I would need a heart transplant someday, I underestimated the effect that outside factors would have on my recovery.

The biggest outside factor? COVID-19.

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