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from baton rouge to the Bronx to families now linked by the heart beating in Miriam nebs chest heart donated by Brittany Newton's family. I'm full of thanks and I'm full of gratitude that God's giving me several. But this is the big one. This is this was my life savings. So thank you Miriam, who's 62 contracted HIV during years of substance abuse. She's been clean for the last three decades but her kidneys began to fail and doctors at Montefiore Health System contemplated *** transplant but they determined her heart wouldn't survive the surgery. So she was placed on *** list for both organs. We felt if we did this, this would put her into *** category of her own. She wouldn't be competing with anybody else in the whole country. In 2013, the hope act allowed HIV positive patients to donate their organs to other HIV positive recipients. Still *** successful heart transplant had never been performed before. HIV patients buying their nature are immuno suppressed. And what do you do when you get someone to transplant? You have to immune to suppress them. And here comes the difficulty the challenges of caring for these people. Long term Miriam underwent heart and kidney transplant surgery in april after Brittany, an aspiring nurse who is also HIV positive was identified as *** match, which brings us to this first face to face meeting complete with Brittany's mother and sisters listening to Miriam's new yet familiar heartbeat. He came at the right time. I hate the way that it came. But it came at the right time. Board. My child still walking around and for that. I L. B. For grateful. Believe that *** medical first celebrated during the time of thanks. And I have to tell you that this is the best gift that as *** family we could have asked for and you all have done so with graciousness and we're forever grateful.