Payton Herres is only alive today thanks to the generosity of an organ donor and his family, who gave her his heart 12 years ago.
The 25-year-old, from Dayton, Ohio, was born with a rare congenital heart disease, Ebstein’s anomaly, which affects the tricuspid valve on the right side of the heart. The condition, which causes blood to leak backward into the right atrium — upper right chamber — of the heart, can lead to heart failure.
