Windy Manzardo and her husband, Paul Manzardo, were at a Sunday church service at St. Pius in Coeur d’Alene when her phone rang. Windy figured the call was unimportant, and church wasn’t over yet, so she ignored it.

Moments later, her husband’s phone rang, and then the text messages began to flood in. He glanced down at a text that declared that after 32 months on the donor waitlist, a heart had become available for Windy.

“It had been so long,” the 51-year-old said. “We hadn’t given up, but at first, you keep your phone on you all the time, you answer every call. After almost three years, you become a little more complacent about it.”

The Manzardos rushed out of church in a state of shock and excitement because Windy was finally going to be able to get a transplant and be free of cardi

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