Riverview man receives heart transplant from family he already knew

April is Donate Life Month, and there are currently 115,000 people living in America waiting for an organ transplant. Robert Humphrey was one of them until, out of nowhere, he received a message that would change his life and save his life.

Entering 2025, Humphrey, of Riverview, wasn’t sure he was going to share another wedding anniversary with his high school sweetheart Marie. He was only given a few weeks to live unless he received a heart transplant.

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Riverview man receives heart transplant from family he already knew

“Pretty much resigned myself that I was going to die,” said Humphrey. “I’m posting online on my Facebook, I have several thousand people that follow me, and I’ve been telling them what’s going on on my transplant journey, and one of these people was a lady named Pam Hendrickson.”…

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