‘I still have a lot of life to live’: After getting 2nd heart transplant, Tennessee woman is recovering and eager to get married [Video]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Life is full of chances. On May 21 at 3:17 a.m., a single heartbeat meant another chance for one Tennessee woman.

It was a second chance for the heart and a third chance for Jordon Hensley. At only 29 years old, this was her second heart transplant.

“I was 28 years old. I mean, I definitely wasn’t done living, and the only option was re-transplant for me,” she said.

She received her first transplant around 17 years ago when she was 12 years old. She later needed a second transplant, after developing cardiac allograft vasculopathy in February — a common but often fatal condition among transplant recipients.

At first, a committee at Vanderbilt University Medical Center voted against putting her on the transplant list for a second heart. But in April, the …