http://www.jamesrexroad.com/photography daily 1.0 2016-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1466980048982-0EMJMCSK6H8H4KCYL7RA/3c.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1466980048982-0EMJMCSK6H8H4KCYL7RA/3c.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1467012966083-KJ7JOHZN77PU9X2KBLS9/Burning+pontiac+2-final.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1467013952589-AIRPB650YOLBDLJQUSWW/BridgeKids_lr.jpg Photography http://www.jamesrexroad.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2017-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1466982297938-HPDWQ8INGBACTE02G9VZ/CubanExerciser.jpg Portfolio - Havana, Cuba The 1991 Pan American Games were held in Havana, Cuba to great success. But crippling, US-led international sanctions against the island's dictatorship of Fidel Castro made it impossible to maintain structures built for the games. Today, the site is still used for athletics, but not as originally intended. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1466982297938-HPDWQ8INGBACTE02G9VZ/CubanExerciser.jpg Portfolio - Havana, Cuba The 1991 Pan American Games were held in Havana, Cuba to great success. But crippling, US-led international sanctions against the island's dictatorship of Fidel Castro made it impossible to maintain structures built for the games. Today, the site is still used for athletics, but not as originally intended. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1466980305495-N3GPKYPSCQAQ1WAWRT2D/StellaBirdkiss.jpg Portfolio - Stella One of nearly 6 million Internally Displaced Persons forced to leave her home, and start over elsewhere, victim to the 52-year civil war in Colombia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1466982571383-KD07I4YOITYUH6912HE0/23.+Al+Gore.jpg Portfolio - Al Gore Vice-President and Nobel Peace Prize winner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1466984203856-9RH2KF4ARMYU5BDLQTNO/KurtLive28.jpg Portfolio - Kurt Cobain Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1466982954338-8RJBMH00RF71GJ17SZBR/PaulBettany2009.jpg Portfolio - Paul Bettany Actor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1466982773089-4N84BTHCI2ZI6HPEUMCV/JCsidewalkRaw.jpg Portfolio - 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"Lots of red meat and smoking in those years," Saul later recalled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493968425198-1SP0NJQDMZFVV60736K3/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Comforted by his wife, Joe is prepped for his transplant. In America, the median wait for a heart is 209 days, with the success rates of patients living longer than 5 years hovering near 50%. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493978972868-3PDU3T00WPU92BDXBL5D/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Another biopsy, and John blocks the light with his Rosary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493975253512-ZINUCHRRV4OY5AY2OBSP/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Joan kisses Saul's hand. At this point, he is unconscious and in the last days of his life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493977923599-IW4XZ7RR7GUAZ03UEBG2/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Four years after her transplant, Lisa gave birth to twin girls, the first born of which was born with a heart-shaped birthmark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493976099552-MCXJOWEMBQKGP0WYP8GJ/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Lisa, 34 and a mother of 2, caught a virus from her youngest daughter which destroyed the tissues of her heart. By this point, she had been on the transplant list for three months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493977836675-I5BSJQAZ3KB2GY0253GP/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Some time later, Lisa is given the chance to meet the parents of the young man whose heart she now has. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493977207878-DREF6C6WSIS7U4KNRXQJ/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Post-op, Lisa is taken to a recovery room, and placed in a warming bed to regulate her temperature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493969594617-ZUEIFQ1F50H7HU6Q6PSP/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Shavonna, 13 years old, was born with a small hole in her heart, a treatable condition if caught early. By the time her heart defect was detected, the damage had already been done. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493977554241-XDFK4EMD3UMUTI6HU0E2/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart ...And 24 hours after her surgery, Lisa leaves the hospital for home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493975400030-NUXX3QYP2VB4XG3IR061/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart The calls go out, and Saul's family arrives to say goodbye to their patriarch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493978802512-5F5ZQT9V00UY08SWZL46/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Flying in the face of hospital rules, John grills himself a steak in his room while talking to a fishing buddy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493972731852-BE4ATBW5Z7GDQ73950P4/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Staying in a good position on the transplant list means being sick enough to need the surgery, but healthy enough to survive it. Shavonna, by this point, has had more than a dozen open heart surgeries to correct the Atrial Septal Defect she was born with, to no avail. Here, she and her mother Christine await test results to track Shavonna's t-cell count. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493978652388-DU2RNKXVPJT4ROG8PJQT/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart John looks at his vitals in real time, and sees that he can do a few more laps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493977443415-86L3LCMT0L6C9OZCD33H/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart A mere six hours after her surgery, Lisa see her scar for the first time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493977300088-JMXFKA5OMS3WVKSRPF9I/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart After brushing Lisa's hair, the nurse at left told me "She would've wanted to do that herself." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493971372019-FA6MPUVAPRUEHLRQIVSK/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Shavonna shops for some of her favorite snacks in her Jackson Heights neighborhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493973178272-S0D5Y68G6N1NHZXBQRWG/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Every transplant surgery is an elective one, and Shavonna needs to make the decision at that time whether or not to accept the donation. This is being explained to her now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493979073616-2TEK9TTK5I5CLUUDF9R9/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Looking down at the sidewalk below, John asks me "You see that guy down there...What blood type do you think he is?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493973735698-HUVZP50M43LAR5L26WEC/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Shavonna is moved to the operating table where she will be prepped for surgery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493969126656-EI1MEMPLT5PH7YTBVWUM/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Given a two-week supply of anti-rejection drugs, Joe is allowed to leave the hospital for home, less than 40 hours after his operation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493970694162-CXA0AK8H4WS18BA1GQ2Q/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart With her mother Christine, Shavonna is at ease and playful in the few weeks before school ends for the summer. At the summer break, Shavonna's doctors will place her on the transplant list. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493977008022-SDEZ1S9FUTUI5F77159V/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Being prepped, Lisa has a short moment of fear and confusion as the sedative takes hold and she is asked to count backwards from 100...she makes it to 94. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493968331959-VTB3N3YNA4JFJTREDT9L/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart After waiting nearly a year on the transplant list, Joe struggles to find ways to fill time at the hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493978495693-Q11F3UNHRMKMPXRQJD55/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart A veteran not only from Korea but also of every test in the hospital, John sleeps on the way to another biopsy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493971587544-FCRZJO9ZUCXFTV5YZLS6/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Graduating from the 8th Grade, Shavonna is now on the transplant list, and will enter the hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493975855617-Q3JKGU883B39XL65ZE2I/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Hours later, Saul is recovering after a successful heart transplant at the age of 72. He lived for another 12 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493978262992-SR4IJ4TCXJPW7Q2M516M/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart John has a rare blood type, and has been waiting on the transplant list for longer than a year. He does two miles worth of laps around the eighth floor every day, trying to stay fit enough to remain on the transplant list. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493974654566-X851Q45WFJHGUBH2G7O8/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Shavonna's family and friends at her funeral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493978076957-KCQD0PC6JQFXSPSMKLB0/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart John, a retired Lieutenant in the New York Fire Dept. holds his first granddaughter in the commons room on the 8th floor of Mt. Sinai Hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493968913099-YSO6U8RS1WEOBH57MEES/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Arty, a stock-broker, peers through the windows of the intensive care unit at Joe who is resting just a few hours after the operation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493973968068-7VUHKN2PMOO0UB6UZELV/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart In a cruel twist, and unbeknownst to the medical staff, the large number of surgeries that Shavonna had previously, created a condition where scar tissue made further surgeries impossible. She died on the operating table when her incisions would not close again, even with sutures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493975185034-WNV19WD6XU5XZHCAYRHS/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart With limited options, Saul's prospect do not look good. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493968983755-6ZY778J0XEO9UMYAT8XB/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart A massage is given to Joe to help clear his lungs and loosen tight muscles less than ten hours after the operation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493975506777-DVIRE1R9O0PU97BBSZN2/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart ...and then things change. A heatwave in NYC forces a power outage, cancelling all elective surgeries at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital about 40 blocks uptown from Mt. Sinai, which still has power. In this photo, Joan is being told that a heart, which could not be transplanted into a patient uptown, was at that time in a taxi on its way down to Saul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493974572501-8ZIVOBIV3B9RES9TD4EA/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart At fourteen, Shavonna is laid to rest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493972459362-KHZ5TIQ9BB3RL5Z6H3L2/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart The first steps into the children's wing at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Shavonna soon makes many friends of the staff and other young patients. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493973597054-Y3G3TI5FZJVX3GMGP5KN/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart One short month later, Shavonna is asked that question, and decides that she will accept the donation and have the surgery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493974977818-X61NKHJ0GG2MS94OTRA7/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Technically too old and too thin to be on the transplant list, Saul is also too ill to go home. Here, Saul's doctors are inspecting his condition, and point out that his LVAD (an assist device for his failed heart valves) was visible beneath his skin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493976834528-HAM5G0H24RLWBRMPZ53D/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Lisa's son visits her in the hospital. With a very common blood type and her age, Lisa's chances are pretty good to get a heart, and her wait was relatively short, only four months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493968786402-0OA8RPRML44WBBUVO1XY/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart Joe's bad heart (at right) was enormously enlarged by the heart disease that also killed both his father and older brother. The harvested heart (at left), is what an average, healthy heart looks like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493968560921-1W3ZBGXXDN5TIJ5K1HLX/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart An accident on the Long Island Expressway mortally wounded an 18 year-old man, who was an organ donor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493969303838-9UHMBP2G4LCQLSQ6KSX6/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart On a strict diet, but no longer on insulin, Joe is able to run errands normally...for the first time in years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493967701612-7LXUT636BRY7RQCEXATQ/image-asset.jpeg Waiting For A Heart There are more than 50,000 people currently waiting on the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) heart transplant list. Following are a few examples of the wait times of some of those people at New York City's Mt. Sinai hospital which I photographed for Life Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/551496c3e4b0cc9152186f6b/1493967630822-8PJ9IU33WJUO4KOFA2X8/iPhone_00.jpg Waiting For A Heart http://www.jamesrexroad.com/read-me-wells daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/4f9adbe124ac5df956fdf900/1377532324708-EROF9ACEN1S3PQS09EBO/J+O+S+E+G+O+N+Z+A+L+E+Z+%2820130826%29.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/4f9adbe124ac5df956fdf900/1377532278651-FL68CC4FNDMRUASHC4I7/Screen+Shot+2013-08-26+at+11.50.45+AM.jpg Read Me