The severe winter storm that has left US air travel in a frenzy since Christmas weekend had a particularly devastating effect on an Alaskan man who was unable to receive a life-saving heart
An Alaska man in need of a heart transplant had to give up his opportunity to receive the life-saving organ to another patient when travel chaos from the US winter storm over Christmas prevented him from flying to the procedure in time.
“It was terrifying news to hear that I was going to get a transplant, to be honest with you. I was terrified,” Holland toldHolland, who is from Fairbanks, Alaska, was given an 8-hour window to fly to Seattle for the procedure so he immediately booked an overnight flight and rushed to the airport. “I started to panic,” he said, “and my worst fears were overwhelming me. Because when you hear that, you’re like, there’s somebody donating a heart and I don’t imagine they can wait that long. Because the longer it waits, the longer the tissue decomposes.”The father told CNN he was trying to look on the bright side, and that another family would experience their own Christmas miracle because of the organ.
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