Dr. Dawn Mussalem
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1,606 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 25 Dec
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Like, what is the heart, by the way?
You know, is there this other element, this other entity of the heart that is powerful?
And I started thinking, I'm going to lose that.
My good friend told me that, wow, your personality is going to change and all this stuff starts flooding my brain.
And then he goes on to tell me, your donor is an IV drug user with hepatitis C. Yeah.
Yeah, that's exactly what I did.
I judged.
So this is the biggest lesson I learned with my transplant is judgment.
So within a few hours after I learned this, I said, okay, I need to think about this because what's going through my mind now is, okay, am I going to lose this heart?
That is amazing family history, childhood that was bliss and beauty, my daughter being born, my husband passing away.
It made her lose all this, and I'm going to take on an IV drug.
What does that mean?
You know, but then after a few hours, I'm like, wait a minute.
This is a woman that decided to donate her heart.
And all of a sudden, I had this knowing that this was the right heart for me.
I feel receiving her heart, I don't know what her circumstances were.
You write a letter to the donor family at six months, and they never responded back to me, and that's okay, because I don't know what the circumstances are.
But I feel she may not have come from the beautiful life that I did.
And she enters this body and we like dance to the harmony of life together.
It is so cool.
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