news bulletin – answers

US teen lives 118 days without heart

gapfiller

1. A teenage patient left a Florida hospital with a brand new heart.
2. "It was like I was a fake person, like I didn’t really exist."
3. After a failed transplant in July she was hooked up to an artificial heart.
4. Doctors believe that procedure was a first for a patient so young.
5. "The first paediatric patient who has received such (a) device in this configuration without the (a) heart".
6. Simmons second transplant was successful.
7. She thanked her doctors at an emotional news conference.
8. (This was) at the end of an extraordinary medical journey.