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IMAGE SOURCE, TOM EVANS Image caption, Jennifer Sutton's heart is on display at the Hunterian Museum in London
By Toby Wadey
BBC News
A woman has visited her own heart at a museum 16 years after it was removed during life-saving transplant surgery.
Jennifer Sutton, from Ringwood in Hampshire, said it was "incredibly surreal" to see the organ as an exhibit at London's Hunterian Museum. The 38-year-old said she hoped it would help promote organ donation, describing it as "the greatest gift possible".
She told the BBC she now led a busy, active life and plans to "keep myself going for as long as possible".
Ms Sutton was a university student when she realised she was struggling with moderate exercise like walking up hills.
She was quickly diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy - a condition that restricts the heart's ability to pump blood around the body - and was told she would die without receiving a transplant.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-65633312
Transplant patient sees own heart go on display at museum
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IMAGE SOURCE, TOM EVANS Image caption, Jennifer Sutton's heart is on display at the Hunterian Museum in London
By Toby Wadey
BBC News
A woman has visited her own heart at a museum 16 years after it was removed during life-saving transplant surgery.
Jennifer Sutton, from Ringwood in Hampshire, said it was "incredibly surreal" to see the organ as an exhibit at London's Hunterian Museum. The 38-year-old said she hoped it would help promote organ donation, describing it as "the greatest gift possible".
She told the BBC she now led a busy, active life and plans to "keep myself going for as long as possible".
Ms Sutton was a university student when she realised she was struggling with moderate exercise like walking up hills.
She was quickly diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy - a condition that restricts the heart's ability to pump blood around the body - and was told she would die without receiving a transplant.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-65633312