Life in a 13.5-pound backpack! Man survives 555 days without "heart" in body 🎒
Life in a 13.5-pound backpack! Man survives 555 days without "heart" in body 🎒
The amazing miracle story of "Stan Larkin," 🩺 a young man facing Familial Cardiomyopathy, began to realize that he was sick at the age of 16, and the condition worsened until doctors estimated that he might die without a heart transplant.
But there was no compatible donated heart at the time. The doctors decided to do something incredible! They surgically removed the "whole" 😲 heart and replaced it with a portable artificial heart called "SynCardia Freedom Driver."
The 24-year-old lives by carrying this blood pump in a backpack weighing 13.5 pounds (about 6 kg) 24 hours a day. It takes the place of the heart and makes a buzz everywhere he goes, so many people like to say if he's carrying a subwoofer speaker. 😅
The amazing thing is that he carried this backpack back to his home, drove 🚗, and even went down to play basketball 🏀! He lived a life of "no real heart in his chest" for 555 days.
It wasn't until in 2016 that a miracle happened that Stan received the waiting donation heart, the surgery went well, and he returned to a fully healthy life at 25. 👍
This is a story that truly proves a medical breakthrough, and a human fighter's heart!
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