Life Life is a very precious gift Cable Technician Pat Tieman, left, and Operator Lloyd Young, hold a picture of their neqhew James MacDonald. James remains in hospital recovering from heart transplant surgery. Lloyd Young and Pat Tiernan have learned an important lesson.
Life is a very precious gift.
James was having surgery to replace the bicuspid valve of his heart, said Young. It s standard heart surgery that usually takes about four hours. You re supposed to go home four or five days later. But something went wrong for James. Following the surgery, James heart was beating on its own, but then suddenly stopped.