"When patients are diagnosed with advanced heart failure, it means they have sometimes less than a year or two to live. So it's a scary diagnosis for anyone to be given. What the L.V.A.D. does is allows people to have a longer lifespan, a better quality of life than they've been living with advanced heart failure," surgeon Dr. Paul Saunders said.
"Not every hospital can provide all that therapy. It requires a lot of infrastructure, requires a large team to perform the surgeries and take care of patients in the settings they need," Saunders said.
"I was weak walking, couldn't even play one note, but I knew that I would play again. It's just a matter of getting acclimated back to the vibration of the mouthpiece on to the lips. And I knew it was going to come," he told CBS News New York's Hannah Kliger.
"They taught me here that I could live. And I did ... Eight months after I got this done, I went to Great Adventure and I went and got on all the roller coaster rides," Harry Robinson shared.
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