Photo: A LOT OF HEART
Heart transplant recipient Eleanor Ball, left, shows cards to June Kunz of Keene. Ball and other volunteers at the Keene Senior Center make cards for the center to sell.
Eleanor Ball sat in the office at the Keene Senior Center last week, joking with a customer buying a painting from the organization’s thrift store next door.
“I wanted that for myself!” she said.
“I like to kid around,” Ball said, smiling from ear to ear. Hours earlier, she had been making greeting cards with a group of seniors and before that, she took an exercise class at the center.
Ball, 73, appears to be like any active senior citizen her age. What makes her remarkable is that she wasn’t supposed to live this long.
Ball, of Keene, had a heart transplant 12 years ago. She hopes a book she wrote and published this year about her experience before, during and after her operation, “The Gift of Life: A Heart Transplant Recipient’s Remarkable Story,” will help transplant recipients and their families.
Read more: http://www.sentinelsource.com/life_and_style/health_fitness/transplantee-tries-to-pay-her-life-forward/article_477ac010-cf19-5a73-8ef0-b188e67f5009.html
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