Heart transplant patient meets Dallas Cowboys

Harley Duffer was the picture of health until October 2009, when the 12-year-old began having asthma-like symptoms. By December, he was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy and was on the heart transplant waiting list at Childrens Medical Center. Childrens has a cardiac-specific inpatient floor as well as the first and largest dedicated pediatric cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVICU) in North Texas. Since 1988, Childrens had performed more than 130 heart transplants. Harley received his on Christmas Day, 2009. The Dallas Cowboys and the Ole Miss football team stopped by Harleys room while the teams were visiting patients at the hospital over the holidays.

Learn more about heart transplantation at Children's: http://bit.ly/52vdIb

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• heart transplant
• dilated cardiomyopathy
• dallas cowboys
• ole miss
• children's medical center

[kagome700]

This made me cry..

[ERnews3967]

sooooo sweet

[alyssa6bieber]

what an amazing christmas gift now he got the cowboys autograohs and got to be with his family again at home

[ktwogimple]

brought tears to my eyes and im not even a dallas fan(,:

[beadlesbieber1995]

thts an amazing christmas present. hope he is doing well! <3