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...someone so ill. In the end, however, Clark's rapid deterioration obviated such questions. Said Clark's surgeon, William DeVries: "It was essentially the death of the entire being except for the artificial heart." Shortly after 10 p.m. on Wednesday, having consulted with Clark's wife Una Loy, DeVries said, "This courageous man's heart was turned...
...done everything I wanted to do in life," he told Peg Miller. "Now if I can make a contribution, my life will count for something." If that meant dying on the operating table, he was prepared. Shortly before surgery, Clark reached for the hand of Una Loy, the high school sweetheart he had married 39 years earlier, and said, "Honey, in case I don't see you again, I just want you to know you've been a darned good wife...
Then late last month there was a sudden turnaround. Returning from a brief business trip, Berenson met Clark's wife Una Loy in the hospital corridor and was told, "Barney is great. He is a totally different person." Berenson quickly confirmed this for herself. "He started talking to me like I was a psychiatrist. It was a 20-minute monologue." Now, she said, Clark is "lucid and rational. He wants to participate in his recovery...
Although he is still listed in serious condition and has some lung and kidney problems, Clark is improving daily, according to the hospital. He has been moved from isolation to an intensive care unit, which he shares with other patients. Clark is frequently visited by his wife Una Loy, who lives in a private suite three floors away...
Others are trying to capitalize on the historic surgery. Clark's wife Una Loy has been besieged with requests for exclusive rights to her husband's story. And Hollywood is about to release Threshold, a film about a surgeon who implants the world's first artificial heart. The designer of the mechanical organ in the movie? Jarvik, of course...