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Welcome to The LVAD, Heart Transplant and CHF Forum.

We have overcome the hurdles and lived.
We all have one thing in common.
The strength and determination to live.

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Everyone is aware of Trump's plans, but none of the Democratic leaders are trying to stop him.
May 25, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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May 24, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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Please SHARE this!
Israel kidnapped Scottish flotilla activist! American media is not reporting on this and we have to ask WHY?

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Did this story make it to you in the U.S.?
YouTube video by Caitlin Speaks
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May 25, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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White House Communications Troll, Steven Cheung rushes back to call people names on Twitter.
May 25, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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Correction: racism and inequality is everywhere in the US. Racism in the healthcare system would have to be corrected before a white man's heart would be given to a Black man on a good day IMO

Racism and discrimination in health care: Providers and patients
www.health.harvard.edu/blog/racism-...
July 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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1969 Apr 4: Dr. Denton Cooley performs first artificial heart transplant in patient Haskell Karp tinyurl.com/wwmy4rrz & tinyurl.com/2vp5sa25 #histmed #medicalhistory
April 4, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make it clear that America rejects the regime’s brutality at home and abroad. app.sosha.ai/s/dtILOqcV
Join me at the next No Kings Day
app.sosha.ai
March 27, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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More than 3,100 "No Kings" demonstrations – about as many events as there are counties in the US – are expected in all fifty states, including an Alaskan city inside the Arctic Circle, fueled by a suburban groundswell of support. https://cnn.it/4uQBmVn
March 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Because that's a normal response to anything and not completely insane. War bores me....let's go eat hamburders and put my name on more stuff.
March 27, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
March 12, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Here we go again!!
March 6, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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I'm not making this up. if you're an American stranded in the Middle East and you call the State Department help line, you get a recorded message pretty much telling you to go fuck yourself. thank you for your attention to my extremely angry post about it. link is here: bit.ly/409JSAA
March 4, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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Some results from last night:

-A pro-ICE NC Dem lawmaker lost her primary by nearly 50 points
-Dems flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Arkansas
-Dem turnout eclipsed GOP turnout in four newly-gerrymandered TX House seats

Trump's midterm reckoning has begun.
March 4, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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Doctors race through Kyiv missile strike to deliver child's donor heart
With missiles falling on buildings around him along dark streets lit with explosions and flames, Borys Todurov kept driving. The Ukrainian cardiac surgeon was in a race against time, travelling with a heart his team had just removed from a six-year-old donor. The 12-year-old recipient was on an operating table on the other side of Kyiv, her chest open and ready for her transplant. "When we take the heart from the donor we only have a few hours — about four hours — to transport the donor heart to our hospital," Dr Todurov, director of the Kyiv Heart Institute, told the ABC. Not wanting to put the driver's life in danger, Dr Todurov jumped behind the wheel of the ambulance. Alongside fellow surgeon Sofiia Chaikovska, a scrub nurse, and an anaesthesiologist, he braved the 20-kilometre drive through what was one of Russia's largest missile and drone attacks. Dr Todurov said they knew it was their only chance to save the life of the young girl whose condition had recently deteriorated. He appeared steely-focused on the road ahead in a video of the incident. At one point, with air raid sirens wailing in the background, he turns to the camera and...
www.abc.net.au
February 23, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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#Love
#Hope
#GoodPeople

Girl Waiting for Heart Transplant Gets Messages of Hope from Construction Workers Every Day Outside Her Hospital Window www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...
Girl Waiting for Heart Transplant Gets Messages of Hope from Construction Workers Every Day Outside Her Hospital Window
“That time each day means everything to us. With so much uncertainty, they’ve given us something joyful to count on,” Brinley Wyczalek's mom said
www.yahoo.com
February 23, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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In honor of the sixth anniversary of my heart transplant, please share some heart songs with me

I'll go first youtu.be/E4vKFWTnr6E?...
Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist
YouTube video by Pat The Bunny - Topic
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February 4, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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January 5, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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www.mediaite.com/media/news/s... #ProudBlue. Only Trump Regime would put the most prejudice racist SOB in their entire racist regime in charge of “running” Venezuela. The people of Venezuela would suffer greatly under Stephen Miller who’s hatred for Hispanics is palatable and well known.
Stephen Miller Being Considered for ‘More Elevated Role’ in Managing Post-Maduro Venezuela: WaPo
Stephen Miller could be jockeying for a major role in determining the future of Venezuela, as the Trump admin works out how to "run" the Latin American country.
www.mediaite.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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In violation of the law:

DOJ has 5.2 million pages of Epstein files left to review: Reports

www.cnbc.com/2025/12/31/e...
DOJ has 5.2 million pages of Epstein files left to review: Reports
President Donald Trump had signed a bipartisan bill requiring the DOJ to publicly release unclassified records from its Epstein investigations by Dec. 19.
www.cnbc.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Today I learned that ethnic cleansing is spelled “resettlement.”
December 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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“President Donald Trump has used the first veto of his second term to strike down a unanimously bipartisan funding plan for a major safe drinking water project in rural Colorado.”
www.ms.now/news/first-v...
First veto of Trump’s second term kills long-awaited water project in Colorado
The unanimously bipartisan bill would have helped finish a major piece of rural infrastructure that started decades ago. Trump’s mad about Tina Peters but says the veto is about the money; Lauren Boeb...
www.ms.now
December 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
December 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Duke Health doctors working on new pediatric heart transplant technique
Duke Health doctors working on new pediatric heart transplant technique
Doctors at Duke Health are working to cut down the time it takes for the smallest patients to get a heart transplant.
myfox8.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Join Us for the Next PHTS Patient & Family Council Meeting!
🗓️ Tomorrow, July 15th
🕚 11:00 AM CT
Connect with fellow heart transplant families, share your experiences, and hear updates from the PHTS community. All are welcome!
💻 Register today at www.PHTSociety.org
July 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM