My beautiful gift of a new heart
Daily Mirror UK|October 03, 2024
Graduate's plea for more ethnic donors
LUCY THORNTON
My beautiful gift of a new heart

A WOMAN'S heartbeat after a transplant was so strong she could not sleep for days.

Mehreen Ahmed, 23, had gasped for breath just reading in bed, but 15 months after the op completed the Great North Run.

At 15, she was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, where the heart's stretched walls do not pump blood properly.

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