NICU nurse grateful for receiving heart transplant =)

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http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/559466

Safa Qurayshi's first instinct was to bury her heart - to give it a funeral - and ignore her friends' claims the human heart is nothing but a mass of muscle and blood.

"I know it's very bizarre, but it's my heart," says Qurayshi, who underwent a heart transplant in 2006.

"The heart has these connotations of love and kindness and it's what keeps you alive and it was a very difficult decision to make."

Qurayshi works as a registered nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit at Mount Sinai Hospital. As a teen, she was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a degenerative disease in which the muscles of the heart thicken and weaken...

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