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Artificial Heart
Man-made heart provides woman new lease on life
June 26th, 2004
Every night, Helen Borrowman wakes up and listens for a heartbeat. From the doorway of the room her daughter and granddaughter share, Borrowman listens for the mechanical pulsating of an artificial heart pumping life through her daughter's body. Swish-whirl, swish-whirl, swish-whirl. It's music to her ears. "We call her our bionic woman," says Helen. The story of Robin Borrowman's life is told through the manmade lines running across her skin. Just below her throat, barely noticeable until she points it out, is the sign of her non-Hodgkins lymphoma, when doctors removed her thyroid gland in search of cancer. On...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2004-06-26)
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