''Incredibly Surreal'': Woman Sees Her Own Heart On Display At Museum, 16 Years After Transplant Surgery
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She expressed how she hopes it would support organ donation, which she described as "the greatest gift possible."
In one of the strangest reunions ever, a woman recently visited a museum to see her own heart, which was removed from her body during a life-saving transplant surgery 16 years ago, BBC reported. Jennifer Sutton, who hails from Ringwood in Hampshire, stated that it was "incredibly surreal" to see her own organ placed as an exhibit at Hunterian Museum in London.
''The minute you first walk in, you think, 'That used to be inside my body'," she said. "But it's quite nice too—it's like my friend. It kept me alive for 22 years and I'm quite proud of it really. I've seen lots of things in jars in my lifetime but to think that's actually mine is very weird,” she added.
She expressed how she hopes it would support organ donation, which she described as "the greatest gift possible." She told the BBC that she now leads an active and busy life and intends to "keep myself going for as long as possible."
When Ms. Sutton first discovered she had difficulty with moderate exercise activity, such as walking up hills, she was a 22-year-old university student. She was diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy, which is a health condition that restricts the ability of the heart to pump blood around the body. Doctors told her that she would die if she did not receive a transplant.
