Amanda expresses her pride in finishing her degree and shares the inspiration for more.
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On a positive note I graduated university. I finally finished the psych degree that I started he story off with. I finished in the spring of 2021 and now since I can’t stay away from school. I am back doing. I’m working towards my second degree right now as a social work student. And the reason why I did social work was because of actually my heart transplant. So not only did I get a wonderful strong beautiful heart out of the experience but I actually got hopefully a career out of it and my passion out of that which is to support fellow recipient heart transplant recipients or organ recipients or people around my age with their diabetes or cancer.
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- Finding Support – AmandaActions by the medical staff made Amanda's hospital stay enjoyable and memorable.
- Access – AmandaWhen hearing that she would need to go out of province for heart treatment, Amanda felt devastated and realized that her life would never be the same.
- Access – AmandaAmanda continued to be dismissed by her cardiologist, in spite of worsening symptoms.
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- Heart Transplant – AmandaAmanda talks about medical issues that she has experienced since having a transplant.
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