Around 17 years after getting her first heart transplant, Jordon Hensley needed a second. After having to wait, she got it and is now recovering.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Life is full of chances. On May 21 at 3:17 a.m., a single heartbeat meant another chance for one Tennessee woman.
It was a second chance for the heart and a third chance for Jordon Hensley. At only 29 years old, this was her second heart transplant.
“I was 28 years old. I mean, I definitely wasn’t done living, and the only option was re-transplant for me,” she said.
She received her first transplant around 17 years ago when she was 12 years old. She later needed a second transplant, after developing cardiac allograft vasculopathy in February — a common but often fatal condition among transplant recipients.
At first, a committee at Vanderbilt University Medical Center voted against putting her on the transplant list for a second heart. But in April, the …