I was in the ICC 3 times that month and also got a picc-line which had to be changed due to a bloodclot into the arm with the pacemaker/defibrillator. On May 07 my home care nurse called the transplant team and reported that I looked very sick. She was told to call 911 and I was taken to the local ER. It turned out that apparently nothing was wrong so I was sent home. The next day I received a call from the transplant team to come for a clinic visit on May 12 at 8 AM. The night before I received a call to stop taking coumadin since I might be an alternate for a heart. I went to my appointment next day and was on my way to my car when the nurse came running after me and told me to come back because they had decided to switch and give me the heart where I was the alternate because the other patient was better off and they were afraid I was not going to make it home alive that day. So, at 11 PM that night I was taken into the OR and woke up on May 13 with a new heart. The other patient received a heart 5 days later and we met in the clinic one day and were introduced. My heart is from a 35-year old man, but that's all I know.  I went back to work on May 01, 2010 and am very happy to be alive and wake up every morning thankful top be still here.