The Heart is Beautiful - Episode 01 - part 01

In this episode we meet the Gird family as they try to deal with the stress of waiting for a donor heart to become available to save an ever weakening Melanie Gird's life after she has been diagnosed with the rare genetic heart disease called A.R.V.D.. A donor heart is located the town of George, but is rejected by the doctors because it isn't in a good enough condition. Despite this big set-back a heart is eventually found and the transplant operation is started.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Klerksdorp
• South
• Africa
• Gird
• family
• Melanie
• ARVD
• heart
• transplant
• operation
• survival
• donors
• journey

[cootercans]

I was just diagnosed with a variation of ARVD today.

[lisavinokur]

this was so moving, great source of inspiration