Denise Darvall · The Medicine Chest

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Denise Darvall

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Description

"During the first heart transplant a shift occurred in the heart of Denise Darvall, the young brain-dead car accident victim whose family had allowed her heart to be given up. In his account of the operation, Barnard writes how her heart’s life fluid returned from the lungs – how many million times had it happened? – but different this time, void of oxygen.

How her heart would react, at first, as if meeting only a small inconvenience. Unaware of what was happening, it would simply pump more excitedly – expecting some relief.

Yet this would never come, and it would fall back in the first wave of confusion and fatigue.

Barnard equates Darvall's heart with a bird trying to take flight" (Liebenberg 2011: 107-108).

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Nina Liebenberg See all items with this value

Date Created

19420227

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19671203

Source

Liebenberg, N. 2011. Point Counter Point. University of Cape Town. Masters dissertation

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Masters

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