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Article: 3 hearts in 3 months.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- March 23, 2007
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Byline: Marie McCullough
Mar. 23--Looking back, Gary Onufer realizes he had symptoms.
The 46-year-old insurance agent was constantly exhausted. His wife, Joan, noticed that he was losing weight. He was skipping more of his daily workouts.
Even so, in the Ambler couple's wildest nightmares they could not have imagined that between Thanksgiving and the start of the New Year, his heart would steadily, inexplicably, almost completely fail, leaving him in dire need of a new one.
It would be insensitive to call someone who has been through Onufer's harrowing ordeal lucky. But yesterday, as he walked out of the Hospital of the University of ...