Girl With Admirer’s Heart Out of Hospital

A teen-age girl who received a heart from a high school admirer has returned home after being hospitalized for a minor episode of organ rejection, officials said Friday.

Donna Ashlock, 15, was released from Pacific Presbyterian Hospital in San Francisco on Thursday and returned to the farming community of Patterson, 75 miles southeast, said hospital spokeswoman Gail Ferrari.

Ashlock will continue to take anti-rejection drugs, which were administered in increased doses during the 11 days that she was in the hospital, Ferrari said.

Ashlock received her new heart Jan. 5 from Felipe Garza Jr., a 15-year-old classmate who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage after telling his parents that he wanted her to have his heart.