But Pinkard was homeless, and he did not have a support system to help care for him after a transplant - and that disqualified him from the waiting list for a new heart.
"It was a pretty scary situation to be in," said Pinkard, 27, who had been living in a men's shelter and working as an office clerk in Warm Springs, Georgia. "I had no idea what I was going to do." Then in December - four months after he learned he needed a new heart - Pinkard landed in the hospital again, but this time he was assigned to nurse Lori Wood. He was her patient for two days at Piedmont Newnan Hospital when she figured out what was going on and stunned him with a remarkable offer: He could move in with her. She could become his guardian and look after him.
"I couldn't believe that somebody who had known me only two days would do this," he said. "It was almost like a dream."
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