Lynda talks about preparing her family prior to her transplant.
Transcript
I’m like, ‘I might not come out.’ And all the things you do when you’re in heart failure and you’re waiting for something like this – I had a sit-down with my son and I talked to him. And while I was in heart failure I had to, I had to make my will up. I had to do a living will. I had to do everything. You know and give control to my husband and my son if I died in heart failure. And then there was the next part which was basically having to sit down and tell them that I have to do this and that, again it’s the emotional toll it takes on you.
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