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Cardiac Nurse with 'Half a Heart' Experiences Heart Failure, Undergoes 'Challenging and Risky' Transplant (Exclusive)
Jessica Eastes had a feeling she would end up working in the field of cardiology. Born blue due to lack of oxygen — "I looked like a Smurf," she tells PEOPLE — she was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect when she was a few days old. By the …