Whenever they meet, Graciela Elliott listens to her son's heartbeat in the chest of David Ponder. 'I am happy my son lives in his body,' she said
Months after the surgery, Ponder visited Lopez’s mother. The bond was instant.
“When I listen to David’s music, I can’t help but be happy,” she said. “My son loved music when he was alive.”‘His death brought me here’ Juan Carlos had been driving home from his cousins’ house early that Sunday morning, when he fell asleep and crashed into a tree. He died Aug. 1, a month short of his 27th birthday, leaving behind a 4-year-old daughter, Vida Mía, and the landscaping business he had just opened.While renewing his driver’s license, Juan Carlos had agreed to be an organ donor. The accident destroyed his pancreas, but doctors were able to harvest the man’s heart, liver, kidney, tissue and other organs.
The transplant came on Aug. 5, 2016. Ponder seemed to recover quickly, leaving the hospital only two weeks after surgery, but medications and anxiety wore him down. In the first month, post-transplant, he lost 50 pounds. His bank account also was becoming dangerously thin, as he was too weak to perform for months, and he fretted that his career might never recover.
A new letter reached its destination. In July 2017, David and Jadie Ponder pulled up outside Graciela Elliott’s home in Coronado. There was a banner outside: “Welcome, David!”
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