Lucinda is alive but someone else has her heart
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (375690)
Rockingham, Australia
December 27, 2025 2:37am CST
I hope you’re all recovering from a joyous Christmas, if you celebrate. Soon we’ll be facing a new year with new challenges and experiences.
I read an incredible story today about a young girl who had cystic fibrosis. To continue living she needed a lungs and liver transplant. However, when someone needs this operation, it is technically easier for the surgeons and less risky to the patient, to do a heart, lungs AND liver transplant at one time, which is what happened to Lucinda Winnems.
A donor was found for the girl but what amazed me was that her healthy heart was given to someone else. Lucinda has gone on to marry and have a child, another unexpected bonus for her. An extra ten years of life is sometimes quoted for transplant patients but Lucinda has now had an extra 20 years of life.
You can read about it here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-27/qld-domino-transplant-lucinda-simpson-cystic-fibrosis/106127132
In the article, one of the doctors talked about the stress of a 12-hour operation starting in the evening and after a full day’s work. This struck me as not ideal at all. Anyway, it’s a nice story.
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@JudyEv (375690)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Dec
Isn't it just? Imagine the logistics to get the patients and organs ready for the operation. They might have been miles apart but perhaps they were in the same hospital.
@luisadannointed (10426)
• Philippines
1 Jan
Someone I know was in an operating room at 9 AM at 6 PM the doctor did a blood transfusion, and the surgery still continued, she was sent to the recovery room at 9 PM and was sent to her room at 12 midnight.
The story was so good and I think God is so good to her.
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@luisadannointed (10426)
• Philippines
3 Jan
@JudyEv Yes. And the sad thing is the whole operation is not that successful.
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@nicegolden (392)
• Shenzhen, China
28 Dec
if you mean she lives without a heart?she shall have something else work as heart I think?
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@JudyEv (375690)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Dec
If you read the discussion carefully, you'll see that they gave Lucinda a new heart as well as lungs and liver. Now, someone else has her original heart and she has a new one.
heart, lungs AND liver transplant at one time, which is what happened to Lucinda Winnems.
@snowy22315 (205224)
• United States
27 Dec
As long as it has a happy ending, I guess it's all good.
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@RebeccasFarm (91298)
• United States
27 Dec
And the surgeon started the long surgery after a full days work..wow!
This is amazing and a miracle she is surviving and thriving.
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@DaddyEvil (170647)
• United States
27 Dec
Wow! What a great story! I'm glad she survived and went on to have a baby. 
Merry belated Christmas!
Merry belated Christmas!1 person likes this
@wolfgirl569 (131853)
• Marion, Ohio
27 Dec
That is amazing. Glad her heart was able to help someone else too
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@RasmaSandra (95791)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
27 Dec
That is nothing short of a miracle and so glad she has now a blesed life,
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@Shiva49 (28060)
• Singapore
27 Dec
Lucinda had great will to live a normal life.
She, in turn, has given away her own heart in the process to someone else too.
The doctors job in such circumstances can be quite sressful.
We are making real progress when it comes to complicated surgerires with minimally invasive keyhole operations aiding minimal post operative stay at hospitals. .
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@LindaOHio (217502)
• United States
27 Dec
That's an amazing story. She is so lucky that they found a donor.
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