![]() ![]() "I have my youngest daughter, she's four, the oldest is ten, and then I have a middle one, she's seven," shared Rangel. Rangel spent weeks in the hospital learning how to walk and use basic utensils again with his wife and three daughters by his side. ![]() Six weeks later, he received his new heart.ĪLSO | Man proposes to girlfriend after finishing 2nd in Austin marathon: 'I'm the winner today' It was just a very surreal experience," said Rangel.Īfter being in the ICU for about 60 days, Raul was given an LVAD (left ventricular assist device), then sent home to recover and wait for a heart transplant. You're here, you're very sick, you can't go home. "It was pretty crazy to be told you had a massive heart attack. He was admitted to a hospital in Round Rock, coded and woke up three weeks later at Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin on an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) device. In March of 2022, he suffered a heart attack. "Ever since I had COVID, my health has been downhill," said Rangel. He’d never had any health problems but all that changed after he had COVID-19 in Sept. Rangel was a healthy 38-year-old with a wife and three kids. 20, Raul Rangel smiled as he rang the bell for the first time. William Kessler, surgical director of heart transplant at Ascension Seton Medical Center. "The bell exemplifies that new start of all of those lives that are touched by the passing of one patient into the new salvation and beginning of all the other patients," said Dr. AUSTIN, Texas - Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin received a new Heart Transplant Bell, thanks to nonprofit, Project Bell. ![]()
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