The sound of his heart beating, strongly and loudly, is what Tom Dye remembers so vividly about his post-operative hours at Tampa General Hospital seven years ago.
The heart that had failed him had been replaced with the heart of a donor, the so-called, "gift of life."
On Dec. 11, his seventh “heart-aversary,” Dye celebrated that gift with friends and family, including his wife, Judy, and their son, Daniel.
Also on hand: their daughter, Stephanie, who three years after her father received a heart transplant received one of her own.
One family, two heart-transplant recipients, which makes the Dyes of Valrico a very unique family, both in the nation and the world.
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