Dámaris Furones is 25 years previous and underwent a coronary heart transplant at 18 at La Paz Hospital. A congenital coronary heart illness threatened her life from the start, however a fast analysis, a number of operations and a pacemaker allowed her to carry out till her youth. Dámaris initially rejected the transplant : “I could not bear that somebody died in order that I might have a brand new coronary heart”
Dámaris Furones and her household, residents of Valladolid, have lived since delivery in a slide of fears and hopes. The first medical assessments have been catastrophic: Dámaris had a posh coronary heart illness that might finish his life in lower than a month. But he was advancing and overcoming all obstacles, till now, simply turned 25 years previous. The street taken since she was little has been lengthy: a path of specialists, a number of operations, a pacemaker, hepatitis B and, lastly, a coronary heart implanted in her chest nearly seven years in the past. The miracle passed off on the La Paz University Hospital in Madrid, the main Spanish transplant heart.
The younger girl’s story isn’t over. Her medical workforce, which throughout her childhood and early youth was headed by Dr. Luis Guereta, head of kids’s cardiology in La Paz, doesn’t rule out that one other transplant might sooner or later be essential. She and her household realize it, however they face life with an phantasm very completely different from the previous, when Dámaris’s flame went out at instances. She now walks via the countryside, pedals every so often or bathes on the seashore. Everything regular, though with warning. She is in her third yr of Medicine on the University of Valladolid. She doesn’t wish to be a heart specialist “in order to not know an excessive amount of”, she prefers household medication. And though she generally breaks the elevator and she or he has to go up six flooring to the laboratory, little by little she goes up. Like her personal life, her beat by beat.
Dámaris and her mom, Sara, are the mirror picture of Bruno’s story, narrated on this identical videopodcast final week. On that event, we spoke with Macarena, the mom who misplaced her 12-year-old son final November. Macarena and her husband had no doubts and donated all of her organs. Bruno’s life served to enhance the lives of not less than seven folks. For this purpose, Macarena informed it together with her personal coronary heart swollen with delight: “I really feel infinite delight, infinite love for Bruno. He is my everlasting baby ”. Now Dámaris and his mom share a dialog with Dr. Guereta, his heart specialist since childhood. After Bruno’s beneficiant story, the followers of Let’s see if I came upon, the video podcast hosted by Miguel Ángel Oliver in Nius, have the chance to be taught the story of Dámaris, a reputation of Greek origin that, based on his dad and mom, means ” the everlasting smile”, the one which sooner or later placed on his chest and on his lips one other angel like Bruno.