HIS MIRACLE HEART WILL BE RACING
MARATHONER'S
TRANSPLANT
Kory
Boglarski was brought back from the dead 13 years ago. The heart of a young
woman saved him.Today, he'll put his transplanted ticker to the test as he
pounds the pavement in the New York City Marathon.
"Not a
day passes, especially when I'm running, when I feel my heart beat, that I'm
not thankful for the donor family and the donor," he said.
"I'm
very proud of him," said the surgeon, Dr. Mehmet Oz, himself a marathoner
who hopes to cheer on Boglarski today.
The two met
in 1995, long before Oz was dubbed "America's doctor" by Oprah
Winfrey. Boglarski was a 16-year-old snowboarding junkie from Connecticut who
came down with a cold that wouldn't go away.
"Within
like a week of just feeling tired, I was in the ICU and put on the transplant
list," said Boglarski, who is now 30 and a special-education teacher near
Boston.
Boglarski
had cardiomyopathy - in which the heart muscle is too weak to pump normally -
and was fading fast at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia in Manhattan.
Oz, director of the Cardiovascular Institute at the hospital, wanted to give
Boglarski an implantable heart pump known as a “left ventricular assist
device”, or LVAD. But it had never been used in a patient so young, and the teen
was so slender that Oz wasn't sure it would even fit into his abdomen. There
was little choice.
"He
was dead," Oz said. "There's no debate about it. He would have died
the evening we put this device in."
After the
LVAD was installed, Boglarski's heart was not responding. The medical team
stood around his bed trying every drug and technique. "Almost because it
was therapeutic to me, I started using his foot as a worry ball," Oz said.
To everyone's surprise, Boglarski's heart started responding. Oz said he later
learned that the foot rub had stimulated the body's lymphatic system. Boglarski
recovered and was able to go home. Seven months later, the family got a call
that a heart was available.
Boglarski
knows only that his heart came from a young woman. He said that after watching
the Boston Marathon, he wanted to run one and chose New York's because his life
was saved here. He'll be wearing a T-shirt that says "Heart Transplant
Survivor" and No. 282910. He has raised more than $2,000 for the American
Heart Association.
Answer the questions
in Spanish.
What happened to Kory Boglarschi thirteen
years ago?
How will he test his transplanted heart?
How old is he and what does he do?
What is the LAVD?
How did his heart start responding after
the LVAD device was installed?
Why did he run in New York marathon?
What is the aim of the marathon?
Read the text again.
Find
at least two examples in the “passive voice”: Why is it used? Which tense can
you identify? Who does the action?
1st example:
2nd example
Provide
examples with the following tenses and explain their uses.
Tense
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Example in english
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Use in spanish
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Future
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Simple past
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Past continuous
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Past perfect
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Simple present
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Present perfect
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Why
are “WOULD” and “BE ABLE” used?
Are
there examples of “relative clauses”? Identify the “relative pronouns”.
Why
is “later” used in the text?
Translate
the following sentences.
Oz
said he later learned that the foot rub had stimulated the body's lymphatic
system.
Boglarski
knows only that his heart came from a young woman.
He
said that after watching the Boston Marathon, he wanted to run one and chose
New York's because his life was saved here.
Find
phrasal verbs with the following verbs. What are their meanings in context?
Come
Go
Put
Bring
