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Beginning to recover, Bodden's two years as a policeman failed to prepare him for this experience.

James Antaki, a full time technician monitoring the artificial heart's progress, sleeps in his office following the twelve hour transplant.

After the second operation when the patient received a human heart transplant, his old diseased heart and the Novacor lie side by side after being removed from his body.

Bodden was near death and was not strong enough for a transplant. The artificial heart would make him strong enough to undergo transplant of a human heart.

Leading heart surgeon Dr. Bartley Griffith implants the artificial heart during a ten hour operation.

Bodden, a Miami policeman had a massive heart attack and the only chance to save his life was a transplant of the promising new artificial heart.

When the Jarvic artificial heart fell out of favor because of its unreliability, doctors began to use a new device, the Novacor heart. One of the first patients in the world, Ashby Bodden was nervous before surgery.

After passing the bar and beginning work as the state's first blind female attorney, Ruschell was honored by a judge and state senator.

As part of a three person arbitration team, Ruschell worked her first case at the county courthouse.

Nervous before working her first case, Natalie was about to meet the other attornies involved in the proceeding. Months of preparation and hope were now a reality.