A Second
Chance

Baby Shay receives
heart transplant.

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Staff Writer

A

dam and Lisa Ziff of West
Bloomfield learned the
truest meaning of the
words "gift of life," when
their infant daughter received a new
heart.
- Diagnosed with
restrictive car-
diomyopathy short-
ly after her birth in
January, 4-month-
old Shay has spent
most of her young
life hospitalized
awaiting a life-sav-
ing heart trans-
Shay Ziff
plant.
!`We received
word that a heart
was available Tuesday morning [May
1 8] ," Adam Ziff said.
Surgery began that night and con-
tinued into the next morning.
"They do not give us any of the
donor's information, except to say that
the heart was compatible with Shay's
size," he said. "We do not know from
what part of the country it came from
or what the circumstances surrounding
),
the dontion were.
Shay is recovering slowly but in a
positive direction, her father said. "To
be sure, she has many hurdles to clear
over the coming days," he said. "But
hopefully she is on the road to being
able to sleep in her own crib, crying to
have her diaper changed, playing with
toys and doing all those other things
we sometimes take for granted, but
that she hasn't really experienced yet."
The family is grateful to a commu-
nity who helped them share awareness
of organ donation and who rallied
around them in an extremely difficult
time.
Understanding that Shay's new heart
could only have become available
through the tragic loss of another
child, Adam Ziff said, "We are so
thankful to the family that decided, in
their time of tremendous grief, to
think of others in need. Their kind act
will give our daughter Shay a second
chance, at life." 0

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