A man over in America has become one of the longest-surviving heart transplant recipients on record - in fact, he's lived as long with a donor heart as he had with his own. In reality, however, the new heart became his own the moment surgeons transplanted it inside his chest 25 years ago.
When Thomas Cook, 50, (probably not the same guy as the travel agent) arrived at the hospital for his annual check-up, the physicians, nurses and other staff involved in his care, as well as the mother of his heart donor, surprised him with 25 red heart-shaped balloons, a heart-shaped cake, plates of heart-shaped sugar cookies, and a heart made of crystal engraved with "25 years strong."
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