SIMSBURY - A Simsbury High School senior’s love for football has him taking someone else's heart on the field, bursting with joy to be alive.
Danny Deitz has been given a new heart and a new chance at life after the wide receiver was diagnosed with Cardiomyopathy in early 2015, as well as an enlarged heart.
“I was playing lacrosse at the time and I started getting loss of breath and I lost 20 pounds of muscle weight,” he said. “It was scary and it really opens your eyes to a lot of things.”
He was taken to Boston Children’s Hospital where doctors told family he was lucky to be alive.
“It’s the scariest thing in the world,” his father Terry Deitz said. “It’s an education I wouldn't have wished on anyone.”
Danny was using a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) to help pump blood to and from the heart, but was told he would need a heart transplant, and would possibly never play lacrosse and football again. Continue reading
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