Word: alyssa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Opportunes' first song, R.E.M.'s "Shiny Happy People," is not suited for an a capella arrangement, and even Conal Murray's solid solo could not make the song provide any aesthetic pleasure. But, three songs later, when Alyssa O'Farrell started singing "In Your Eyes," the Opportunes began to deliver the complex, daring arrangements topped by superb solos that make the group great. O'Farrell saved the night, and everyone in the audience was proud...
Last New Year's Eve, Alyssa took to bed with symptoms that suggested bronchitis. Three months later, she was rushed to a hospital emergency room with a high fever. Doctors suspected a virus, but sent her home. Two days later, Alyssa was at her doctor's office with pneumonia. Within days her skin turned blue from lack of oxygen. By mid-April she was on a list for a lung transplant...
...Plums, who had read about transplant surgeries using lobes of the lung from living donors, decided to volunteer. Alyssa successfully received a piece of Roger's lung. Then her other lung failed. Less than four weeks later, Cindy underwent the procedure. This time Alyssa died of heart failure. Both parents have 18-in. scars that run from their chest to their back. Cindy's sleep is still interrupted by pain. Roger suffers from muscle weakness. Even though the couple have a son, Travis, 6, who risked losing a parent, they never had doubts about their actions. "If I didn...
...Alyssa Smith of Schertz, Texas, is a radiant and mischievous three-year-old who smears her mommy's makeup and cheerfully taunts her older brother Ricky. Her parents, Teresa and John Smith, made medical history to give her the liveliness she enjoys...
...Alyssa was born with biliary atresia, a condition that leads to liver failure. When a national waiting list produced no suitable donors, doctors asked if one of her parents would become America's first living liver donor. A healthy person can lose up to 75% of a liver and survive: within weeks the organ will fully regenerate. Both were willing; Teresa's liver proved more compatible. In a 14-hour procedure in November 1989, surgeons at the University of Chicago Medical Center removed the left lobe of Teresa's liver, trimmed it down, then transplanted it into Alyssa. During...