//'A Christmas blessing': Teenager receives unexpected heart transplant on Christmas Eve

'A Christmas blessing': Teenager receives unexpected heart transplant on Christmas Eve

An Iowa family is calling the unexpected phone call they answered a day before Christmas Eve a “blessing,” as it led to their daughter receiving a life-changing surgery. Doctors at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital say 18-year-old Brooklyn Soroka had mixed cardiomyopathies, thickening the heart muscle so that it was harder for the heart to pump blood and a condition that made