Marcus A. Guillory of Buford received a life-saving heart transplant Nov. 26, two days prior to his 50th birthday, at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Guillory’s heart donor was an 18-year-old who died due to accidental gunfire. (Staff Photo: Brendan Sullivan)
BUFORD — Doctors told Miriam Guillory they didn’t expect her husband Marcus to survive a quadruple bypass last December. All but one of his main arteries were completely blocked and his blood pressure was dangerously low.
“They pretty much told me, ‘He probably won’t survive,’” Miriam said.
She then asked if her husband was alert, if he was talking. He was.
“To me, I felt that if he was talking and answering the questions correctly and alert, then he was not as bad as they said he was,” she said, “but he was on paper.”
Miriam was then asked if she wanted to say goodbye to her husband. But Marcus wasn’t ready to say goodbye.
“He says, ‘You better get to praying, you know what to do.’ His spirit was so strong,” Miriam remembered. “When I heard him say that, I knew he was going to be all right.”
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