We met Bud Clever during our visit to MTS. He received a heart transplant on Friday the thirteenth of August 1999. He was born with two heart valves instead of four. Bud needed a pacemaker to keep his heart beating. When Bud was five he had his heart repaired. It stopped working when he was twenty-two. One of his heart valves was leaking and his blood wasn't being oxygenated very well. In January of 1997, he knew he would need a heart transplant. He was on the waiting list for seventeen months. Bud was in the hospital for two weeks after his transplant. When he got out of the hospital, he was taking fifteen medications or sixty pills a day. The doctors have reduced that to six medications and about thirteen pills a day. Bud will have to keep taking them for the rest of his life, but that's okay with him because he feels great! We really enjoyed meeting Bud Clever. He has a positive outlook on life. Bud has high expectations for the future and he hopes to go back to school someday.

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