New heart

Tammy Lumpkins tries to rest while her husband, Dale, keeps a watchful eye in her room at the Keck Hospital of USC.


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Tammy Lumpkins packs up an extra Freedom Drive System, which powers her artificial heart.


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Dr. Michael Bowdish, left, hugs Tammy Lumpkins, who received a Syncardia Total Artifical Heart.


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Dr. Michael Bowdish holds a Syncardia Total Artificial Heart similar to the one he placed inside patient Tammy Lumpkins.


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Dale Lumpkins, right, practices hooking up the spare Freedom Drive System that he and his wife, Tammy, left, will take when they leave Keck Hospital of USC.


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Felicia Schenkel, lead cardiothoracic transplant nurse, right, gives a Freedom Drive System test to Tammy Lumpkins as Dale Lumpkins watches.


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Dale Lumpkins, left, checks on the Freedom Drive System that powers his wife Tammy Lumpkins’ artificial heart.


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Tammy Lumpkins takes a walk with her husband, Dale, in front of the Keck Hospital of USC.


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