Sentences with phrase «crippled by their heart disease»

All human beings face death as an inevitable destiny, but those of us who are crippled by heart disease or cerebral injury or other illness are more conscious of this destiny, particularly as we advance in years.

MacGillivray, the Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Thoracic Transplant at the hospital, said, «The progress that has been made, in just 50 years, in allowing people with end - stage heart disease, who are not only dying, but crippled by their heart disease; to give them a revolutionary, effective therapy in a heart transplant... I mean, it is amazing.»