Local heart transplant survivor pays it forward

CLEVELAND (WJW) – Tom Sonneborn of Parma Heights is a heart transplant survivor, but his journey was anything but easy.

“I remember it—certainly,” he says. “You remember the bad parts.”

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Eight years ago, Tom received a heart transplant. He celebrated that milestone just last week. But the road leading up to that moment began a year earlier, when the normally healthy, active 61-year-old suddenly went into heart failure.

Tom was in and out of the hospital for months. After a year of unpredictable setbacks, doctors placed him on the heart transplant list…

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