The choked mother heard the heart beating in the chest of others

A tragedy brought the two American families together, and the heart of a young man changed the fate of two families, forever.

Chubby mother heard the heart beating in the chest of others

In October last year, woman Sue Ellen Monaghan in Portland, Maine was nearly collapsed when doctors announced that her only son Tim Conley would not survive after a labor accident.

Before his death, Conley was registered as an organ donor, and he helped save four lives, including 52-year-old Jon Claflin, who suffers from a chronic heart disease at risk of death. .

Mrs. Sue and her son Tim Conley as a child

As he was anxiously lying in an emergency room with a fading heart, Claflin and his wife were extremely happy to hear that Conley's heart was right for him, and the heart transplant surgery was quickly carried out.

Claflin is one of 2,655 Americans fortunate to have a heart transplant in 2014, while more than 4,100 are still waiting.

More than 6 months after the surgery was successful, recently, Jon Claflin had an emotional meeting with the benefactor's mother who had saved her life, and Mrs. Sue choked tears when she heard the left The son's heart is beating in Jon's chest.

Jon has come a long way from Massachusset to Portland to express his gratitude to the benefactor family. Jon said he was diagnosed with heart failure in 2012, and in 2014, he could barely walk and could only wait to die. The miracle happened when he received a call from New England Viscount Bank, announcing Conley's heart.

Sue choked upon hearing the son's heart beating in Jon's chest

After Jon's visit, Mrs. Sue reached out and hugged Jon and then pressed her ear to his chest, sobbing listening to the beating heart of her dead son, causing witnesses to shed tears because of emotion.

Sue said excitedly: ' Part of my son is still living. Although he died in late October, his heart still lives in Jon's chest. It's enough for a mother like me to hear that heart beating '.

In addition to Jon, Conley's liver saved a 52-year-old woman, while his pancreas and kidney were transplanted to a woman and another man.