D’Zhana Simmons felt like a living corpse, without heart in her body for four months.

“But I know that I really was here,” the 14-year-old said, and she did survive without a heart.” She looked scared of what she had suffered while being released from Miami hospital.

Since July, she had underdone two heart transplant surgeries and survived with artificial heart pumps, without heart for 118 days between the transplants.

Last spring D’Zhana’s parents came to know that she had cardiac hypertrophy (enlarged heart) that was too weak to perform function. They took her to Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami for heart transplantation. But unfortunately her new heart didn’t perform well and could have chances to rupture, so surgeons decide to replace it.

They surgeons performed unusual act and replaced her heart with artificial pumping devices that kept the process of circulation running, till her second transplant.