Corinne Gammino and Kathy Shafer are new best friends. The Orange County women have two strong connections that bind them together.
For one thing, they both love to crochet.
That's something they learned when they met in the hospital, awaiting heart transplants. Both women got new hearts in August. Both responded well, and each went home 10 days after her procedure.
The pair, who became hospital roommates and cheerleaders for the other cardiac patients at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, are among the oldest to receive heart transplants there. Gammino, of Monroe, turned 70 on July 16, while in the hospital. Shafer, who lives in Newburgh, is 65.
"I feel fantastic," Gammino says. "I have a different quality of life."
'I almost didn't make it'
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