In the UK, a woman, for unexplained reasons, recognized by her voice and appearance a young man who had her son's heart transplanted 6 years ago. The man who received a healthy organ called the incident a miracle. Families now maintain relationships.
Seeing a stranger at the meeting, Freda Carter for some unknown reason realized that it was he who had been transplanted the heart of her deceased son a few years ago. A resident of Great Britain told about this to Th Dail Mail.
John Carter, Freda's son, died in 2006 at the age of 33 from a brain tumor. The family decided to donate his organs to a transplant clinic for those in need. The Carters were soon informed that their son's heart had been transplanted to a teenager named Scott. The rules prohibit medics from divulging more information.
The inexplicable happened six years later when Freda Carter decided to attend a donor memorial evening. During the speech of 20-year-old Scott Rutherford, the woman suddenly realized that it was in him that her son's heart was beating now. “I turned to my husband John and said that he had the heart of our son John! Something happened inside me, I don't know what. I just knew it was him,”she said.
Scott Rutherford
At the end of the meeting, when the family told Scott about everything, he agreed to clarify the data in the hospital. The doctors went forward. Checking the file cabinet, they confirmed Freda Carter's feelings.
Scott, who received a new healthy heart, calls what happened at that meeting a miracle. “It was like in a movie,” the young man said. Now the two families are improving relations. The publication notes that they do not want to rush and want to get to know each other better.
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A transplantologist at Newcastle Freeman Hospital, where the operation was performed 6 years ago, noted that such stories are extremely rare. “I can remember only a few situations when donor families met with those who will receive organs from their deceased relatives,” he said.