{"id":6408,"date":"2023-03-17T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T14:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=6408"},"modified":"2023-03-17T07:59:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T14:59:12","slug":"quite-an-adventure-cartoonist-helps-lifelong-friend-through-heart-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/03\/17\/quite-an-adventure-cartoonist-helps-lifelong-friend-through-heart-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Quite an adventure&#8217;: Cartoonist helps lifelong friend through heart transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6408\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"2\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p><em>Over three months, Steve Ulrich and Leigh Rubin drew strength and inspiration from each other. Rubin also drew cartoons for his nationally syndicated comic.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Katherine Cook<br>PORTLAND, Oregon \u2014 A Hood River man has a new heart and deepened appreciation for a lifelong friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Ulrich, 66, received a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/health\/organ-donors-mother-heart-recipient-emotional-moment\/281-6267e924-cc00-4ebc-bdd9-1df205b5ef86\" target=\"_blank\">heart transplant<\/a>\u00a0in December at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Southwest Portland. But before getting on a transplant waiting list, doctors told Ulrich he would need someone to commit to being a temporary, in-house caregiver to him for three months. Ulrich reached out to his close friend, Leigh Rubin. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/community\/pacific-storyland\/cartoonist-helps-friend-heart-transplant\/283-f5d74e8d-4388-470b-b1ed-26ee5b5fc8c7\">Read or watch the story<\/a> from KGW8.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6408\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"2\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Over three months, Steve Ulrich and Leigh Rubin drew strength and inspiration from each other. Rubin also drew cartoons for his nationally syndicated comic. 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