Dr. Alan Simeone signs a heart shaped pillow for Mackey as Dr. Matthew deShazo looks on.
JACKSON, Miss. – When cardiac patient Sharon Mackey goes home, she’ll take with her at least two mementos from her stay at UMMC, she said: “a warm blanket and a warm heart.”
The bright red blanket, one of a number distributed to cardiac patients to recognize today’s National Wear Red Day, was presented by Dr. Alan Simeone and Dr. Matthew deShazo, two of her physicians.
The heart was a gift from an unnamed donor and the donor’s family.
“They were my guardian angels who watched and waited to give me this new lease on life,” said Mackey, 50, of Port Gibson. “I feel like a million bucks.” Read the entire story.