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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Garrettsville teen begins new year with new heart

Ohio Beacon Journal | Cheryl Powell

Porter Lyons received an incredible, completely unexpected gift over the holidays.

The 18-year-old from Garrettsville started the new year with a new heart.

Just one week after suddenly becoming deathly ill on Christmas Eve, the seemingly healthy James A. Garfield High School senior underwent a heart transplant at the Cleveland Clinic.

“I’m pretty excited to get back to the normal routine of things — except for with a new heart inside me,” he said this week from his hospital bed at the Cleveland Clinic.

Though he previously didn’t have any obvious signs that his heart was failing, Porter and his family were already all too familiar with heart transplants.

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