Heart Transplants

Ezekiel "Zeke" Kendall is, by most measures, a nice guy. He's friendly, upbeat and enjoys spending time with his family. Still, you wouldn't be wrong if you called him heartless. The Costa Mesa 19-year-old — who's awaiting the first of what...

The devil may have taken Skylar Marion away, his father says, but God had to figure out how to spread him around. Skylar, a 15-year-old Chesapeake High School freshman who loved to tinker with bicycles and spend time outdoors, was killed in a hit-and-run...

PETOSKEY — It's a hard subject for Tina Stead to talk about -- how her family's life changed in what seemed like an instant. Tina, 32, and her husband Mike, 31, have been together for 12 years. The Boyne City couple has three children -- sons,...

A benefit dinner is planned for Ashley Shepherd, 20, a 2010 Petoskey High School graduate. Shepherd underwent a heart transplant in December, and has been staying with family in the Detroit area while she recovers and has regular visits with her doctors....

The surgical-style mask covering Oviedo coach Tom Hammontree's mouth and nose fogs his glasses as he breathes. "It's just something you have to put up with," Walter Dahn said. Dahn understands. Hammontree, a track and field and cross country coach...

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The stories I write linger longer in me than its publishing date. Sometimes concepts remain like riddles in my mind and surprise me with greater stories later on. I relate this idea to Yanira Barona, a 41-year-old mother from Whitehall, whose story I've...

Ray Alt is a fighter, his wife says. After two years in and out of hospitals for a swiftly deteriorating heart, the Geistown man has become the first in the Johnstown area to receive a new type of heart pump, designed to keep his blood flowing while...

Oviedo cross country and track coach Tom Hammontree, who had heart transplant surgery on Jan. 10, is getting stronger everyday. “Feeling good [three] weeks out from the transplant,” Hammontree said in an email to the Sentinel. “Today...

Ashley Shepherd, 20, wears the 14-inch scar down the middle of her chest like a badge. "Scars are but evidence of life, a scar means you survived whatever tried to hurt you," she says proudly. The scar, one of many, helps tell the story of all this...

Oviedo cross country and track coach Tom Hammontree, 68, underwent successful heart transplant surgery Thursday night at Florida Hospital-Orlando, according to his wife, Jane Hammontree. “He is recovering as expected,” Jane said. “He...

Five-year-old Teresa Bartlinski was lying unconscious shortly after 3 a.m. Friday at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia when the doctor told her parents they had called off the heart transplant she was prepped to receive. The girl — whose...