The app exists because
the patient survived.
In September 2024, James Nerlinger was airlifted to The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati in end-stage heart failure. He was stabilized on an Impella device, listed for transplant, and received a new heart on November 9, 2024.
He spent two months in the hospital. He came home in January. He started writing about it — not as therapy, but as testimony. One More Beat is the account of what it is to choose life when the data strongly suggests otherwise, and what comes after.
The blog runs from the last years of decline through the hospital, through transplant day, through the ICU, through recovery, and into the ongoing reality of post-transplant life. It is also where Aevora Reporter was born — from the direct experience of needing to communicate complex health data to multiple specialists, every week, for the rest of a life that now depends on getting that communication right.
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