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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Thomas Bryant is the longest-living coronary heart transplant recipient to outlive COVID-19, and the second-longest coronary heart transplant survivor in the USA.

Medical doctors known as Bryant’s restoration wonderful, particularly given his medical historical past.

“To see any individual kind of grit it out and to make it via and have the ability to have the household come again and get again to life, that makes it worthwhile for therefore many individuals who labored onerous,” Baptist Hospital infectious illness specialist Dr. Stephen Threlkeld mentioned.

Making it to the opposite facet was actually no simple feat for Bryant.

“It’s been tough,” he mentioned.

He’s spent the final 84 days at Baptist Hospital battling COVID-19. He wanted a respiration machine 4 separate occasions throughout his go to.

“I used to be serious about getting out of right here and going dwelling, you realize, the place I may eat and drink some water,” Bryant mentioned.

COVID-19 wasn’t this warrior’s first combat.

The 71-year-old lately underwent surgical procedure for colon most cancers. He beforehand battled kidney most cancers and a weakened immune system from a coronary heart transplant greater than 30 years in the past.

“So all of these issues made him a really high-risk particular person with a really excessive mortality price, however he did amazingly properly and principally simply saved going,” Dr. Threlkeld mentioned.

By all of it, he triumphed and have become the nation’s second-longest coronary heart transplant survivor

“33 years—he’s lived a whole additional era along with his new coronary heart,” Dr. Threlkeld mentioned. “It truly is why we do that. He’s lived a productive life. He’s a favourite of everyone.”

Bryant doesn’t need the credit score, although.

“The grace of God,” he mentioned. “I’ll at all times give him the credit score, however all of ya’ll been good. God, he gave me the most effective medical doctors and nurses there’s anyplace.”

“Mr. Bryant kind of exemplifies the explanation we like to stand up and are available to work,” Threlkeld mentioned. “By all of the darkness and issues and simply the loneliness and isolation that notably these folks face.”

Now on the opposite facet of this, Bryant is trying ahead to seeing his household once more and having fun with his favourite meals.

Bryant now heads to a short stint at a rehab facility to regain his energy, then he’s headed dwelling.

He appears to be like ahead to celebrating his birthday in August.

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