Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110513:15:41:00
Rest and sleep. >> i would sleep mostly like with my knees on the floor leaning over the bed. because it was too uncomfortable to lie flat because i would cough too much because my heart was not good at all. >> reporter: she watched the 2008 kentucky derby from her hospital bed waiting for a heart transpl transplant. it took seven months in which her doctors didn't think she would survive. >> it was a poor quality of life that i was living, and i wanted to stop what i was doing to my family and either, you know, have a chance of living a good life or, you know, just stopp g stopping. >> report...