Karen Hill Crowell and Thomas Cutinella will be linked forever after the latter saved the former with a heart transplant following his death eight years ago in a freak accident. Crowell is now a mom herself, and the Cutinellas are happy their son has made this miracle possible.
The 5-month-old baby’s birth came nearly eight years after her mother received a new heart from a Long Island high school football player killed in a freak accident, with his organ transplanted into deathly ill stranger Karen Hill Crowell to save her life.