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‘Can you hear your mum’s heart beat?’ Dee family meets patients who received Lucy’s organs by Jotam Confino in Petah Tikva jotam@jewishnews.co.uk @mrconfino
“Can you hear her heart beat?” Lital asked Keren Dee, the daughter of Lucy Dee who was killed in a terror attack last month. “Yes,” Keren replied and started crying. Jewish News was at the scene during a highly emotional meeting this week at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, where the Dee family met for the first time the donor patients who each received organs from the Lucy . Both surviving daughters, Keren and Tali, listened to 51-year-old Lital Valenci’s heart beat through a stethoscope. “Listening to my mother’s heartbeat made me feel like I am with her,” said Keren. “It was moving meeting Lital and all the recipients. We have lost so much but are comforted that so many families were saved
Keren Dee, with sister Tali beside her, listens to Lital Valenci’s heart through a stethoscope
from similar pain.” Tali added: “Nobody can understand what it is like losing a mother and two sisters at once and to hear my mother’s heartbeat was comforting.” Their father, Rabbi Leo Dee, said he had been “in tears” all morning in anticipation of the meeting with the patients, but that seeing them all made him feel happy again. “ Valenci told the family: “You saved my life. Thank you so much.” The recipient, who suffered from heart failure for five years, waited eight agonising months for a new heart, with doctors telling her she had months to live without a transplant. Lucy Dee saved her. Rabbi Dee told Valenci: “I actually thought I was going to burst into tears when I saw you. And I didn’t. I felt joy. So thank you for bringing us back up.” The doctors who had taken part in three Continued on page 3
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