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Joe Tucker’s transplant story

Dec 6, 2021 | News

From ABC News:

“In 2004, at just 38-years-old, Tucker had a heart attack.

‘I was an entrepreneur doing my own landscaping and just got stressed out. I was working really hard in the summer times and stuff, and I just collapsed. And after that first heart attack, the second one was no problem,’ said Tucker.

Then Tucker had a third, fourth, and fifth heart attack.”

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