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Alex Heisel gives a thumbs up just minutes after the ventilator was removed and she breathed her first breath with her new lungs after a 12-hour surgery Oct. 30 in Stanford University Medical Center.
January 19, 2018
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January 19, 2018 midnight
Post Falls woman comes home a transplant survivor
POST FALLS — Saying goodbye to her family for what could have been the final time was one of the hardest things Alex Heisel ever had to do.