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Gift of life itself, there is this tremendous feeling of emotion, but its very positive. i think my first words when i came out from under the anesthesia and it worked was hot damn. they wanted to show us how dramatic the transformation was. this is his heart moments after it was removed. >> this is a rather large basin and here is your heart. >> the one i lived with for 70 years. >> a normal heart would basically be about the size of two fists clamped together like this maybe smaller. >> right....

>> thats what i lived with for 70 years. >> normal heart would basically be about the size of two fist fists clamped together, maybe a little smaller. this is half a foot wide. >> old heart new heart. old heart new heart. its one of those situations where bigger is not necessarily better. >> thats because a bigger heart cant effectively putsch blood through the body. the x-ray on the left shows cheneys enlarged heart, twice the normal size and pushing on his other organs. on the right, his new h...