I loved reading this story. Our son of 27 also received a heart transplant at 3.5 years of age. His heart is also the original transplant. By luck of an acquaintance we received cardiac telephone advice from Dr. Dan Bernstein in 1997. We live and lived in southern California at the time. His advice was to seek out Dr. Starnes at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Starnes eventually performed our son's successful heart transplant in July 2000. He too finished high school and college, and he is looking for a career in the health field as a child life specialist. I found your article today while researching a question my son had asked about survivability from his one heart transplant; while driving home from an appointment today. Great information to read about.