{"id":38801,"date":"2022-11-24T08:42:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T08:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=38801"},"modified":"2022-11-24T08:42:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T08:42:36","slug":"longest-surviving-heart-transplant-patient-reveals-relatives-died-after-dismissing-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/24\/longest-surviving-heart-transplant-patient-reveals-relatives-died-after-dismissing-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Longest surviving heart transplant patient reveals relatives died after dismissing surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22344\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/organ-surgery-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/organ-surgery-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/organ-surgery-770x462.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/organ-surgery-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/organ-surgery.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">W<\/span>hen Sandy Law went for a <a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/03\/09\/pig-heart-man-dead-two-months-world-first-transplant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">heart transplant<\/a>\u00a0in 1982, it was a procedure fraught\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/08\/18\/worlds-first-heart-transplant-almost-didnt-happen-due-medical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">not only with uncertainty but controversy<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/longest-surviving-heart-transplant-patient-reveals-relatives-died-after-dismissing-surgery\/ar-AA14ujX3?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=fffeb2bea4a2443680942b245d132ea1\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>When Sandy Law went for a heart transplant\u00a0in 1982, it was a procedure fraught\u00a0not only with uncertainty but controversy. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/heart-transplant.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38803,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38801\/revisions\/38803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}