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January 31, 2020

In The News: 5 for Good (WCVB Channel 5)

“5 for Good” – January 30, 2020

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. — Larry Williams and Mike Ashworth met in the hardest of circumstances.

Williams was in need of a heart transplant and was too sick to leave Tufts Medical Center. Ashworth, a volunteer with the HeartBrothers Foundation, paid him a visit.

“We have firsthand experience of what happens to your body, what happens to your mind,” Ashworth said.

Click image to watch video on WCVB’s website.

All HeartBrothers volunteers, which include women, are survivors of heart failure which is a chronic, progressive condition.

Ashworth had already had a heart transplant when he met Williams.

“That’s the greatest gift God can give you,” Williams said. “Knowing somebody who’s already been through the steps that you’re getting ready to follow.”

Those steps often take years and involve difficult surgeries with uncertain outcomes.

“You’re fighting for your life the entire time,” Ashworth said.

Pat Sullivan started the HeartBrothers Foundation, which awards grants to heart failure patients and organizes visits from trained survivor volunteers. A survivor himself, it was during his yearlong wait for a heart that Sullivan bonded with two other patients, including HeartBrothers co-founder Bob Romer.

“Bob and I said, ‘If we get out of this alive, we got to do something to give back,’” Sullivan said.

Sullivan said patients need both emotional and financial support.

“The average transplant costs $1,000,000,” Sullivan said. “The average income of a transplant patient is $50,000.”

“There’s a certain something about being able to help someone,” Ashworth said. “Even though you may be strong, and you may be optimistic, there are still times that you despair.”

You can find out more about the HeartBrothers Foundation here.

 

Article by reporter/anchor Erika Tarantal. January 30, 2020.

Filed Under: Heart Failure, Heart Transplants, Home Page News, News, Team HeartBrothers, Videos Tagged With: 5 For Good, Erika Tarantal, HeartBrothers, Larry Williams, Mike Ashworth, Patrick Sullivan, WCVB

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  1. Johm says

    March 12, 2020 at 10:09 am

    I’m just going through a triple bypass my name is John and just give his I have spoke with somebody there beforeI was in need of some help with money but nobody could help me at the time I was wondering if you could still be possible that you’re helping me down I could use a couple of thousand dollars to get back on my feet and get caught up with my bills if that is possible please let me know

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