Amy Lanning Becerra, a 1997 Barrington High School grad, with her husband Ed Becerra during their honeymoon in Ireland.
For several precious hours Saturday night and early Sunday, Amy Lanning Becerra and her family were elated. After all, a miracle was en route.
Or so they thought.
Becerra, a 1997 Barrington High School graduate, is one of more than 3,000 people on the waiting list for a heart transplant in the United States. A patient in Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago since September, and on the 1A priority list since Nov. 4, she received word Saturday that a match had been found.
“We were both crying and happy,” said Ed Becerra, Amy’s husband of two years. “We had a match. But they kept saying, ‘weather permitting, weather permitting.’
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