Actions by the medical staff made Amanda's hospital stay enjoyable and memorable.
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And we decorated my rooms for Christmas and New Years. Oh goodness what else? I also spent Valentines Day in the hospital too, so we’d decorate my room for Valentines Day that kind of stuff was as well. So, they made me – patient experience the most that it could be. And we actually snuck a pizza to my ICU room on Boxing Day. I still don’t know how that happened, but we did it and it was so – honestly it was a whole lot of fun to be there. And I’m so grateful I’m able to go back now to this day as a post-transplant patient and make – see everyone who helped me, save my life.
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