been to before and will be again. gage for now is stable but has the same disease and will one day need a transplant too. love you too, gage. for jason and stacy another long night of waiting and worrying. he sierra is placed on a heart-lung bypass machine to keep her alive as her failing heart is removed. and then the donor heart arrives. doctors inspect the donor heart to make sure there are no surprises. it looks perfect. implantation begins. they carefully attach each artery and the aorta. as soon as surgeons allow blood to fill the chambers, sierra s new heart starts beating on its own. surgeon ma yeda goes to jason and stacy. oh, you re asleep. yeah. it s a long night.