A mother met the transplant recipient of her son’s heart in Nebraska last week, hearing her son’s heartbeat for the first time in three years.
According to Nebraska Medicine, Lisa Swanson met Terry Hooper at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha on Friday after years of communication through letters and email.
Swanson’s son, Levi Schulz, was 18 when he was killed in an automobile accident in December 2012.
Levi was kept on life support in order to preserve his organs for donation.
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Hooper was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy in 2003 and placed on the transplant waiting list in 2012.
After 52 days on the list, he received the heart transplant.
Both Hooper and Swanson exchanged hugs and cried during the meeting.
Hooper gave Swanson a stuffed animal that plays a recording of her son’s heart beating in his chest.