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Surrounded by family and others, including a hug from wife Nicole, Dan Christ of Coeur d'Alene gets ready to leave Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane in March 2023, after receiving a heart transplant.

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THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: The heart of the matter — The story of Dan Christ's heart transplant, and the Coeur d'Alene man's message of hope to others
June 16, 2024 1:20 a.m.

THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: The heart of the matter — The story of Dan Christ's heart transplant, and the Coeur d'Alene man's message of hope to others

"I can’t say enough about organ donation,” he said. “I’m alive today, because somebody checked the box. That person is a lifesaver, because especially in my case, if that heart hadn’t worked, my condition was getting so bad, we just don’t know when the next heart would come available. “So I can’t say enough about the donor’s family, and how grateful I am to them.”