MADRID — He was just about to witness the birth of his first child when the long-awaited call came: Doctors had found him a compatible heart and were ready to do the transplant.
For 39-year-old Antonio Salvador, who had been waiting years for a new heart, it was a day in which two life-changing events miraculously coincided at Madrid’s Gregorio Maraon hospital.
“When I went into surgery I wasn’t yet a father. I spoke to my wife on a video call and we wished each other luck,” he said in a statement released on Friday by the hospital … When I woke up, there was twice the sense of delight,” said Salvador, who suffers from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a hereditary disease of the he…
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