NEWS
By Yvonne Wenger, The Baltimore Sun | November 30, 2012
Five-year-old Teresa Bartlinski was lying unconscious shortly after 3 a.m. Friday at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia when the doctor told her parents they had called off the heart transplant she was prepped to receive. The girl - whose Catonsville family enlisted their church, community and global supporters to join them in praying for a miracle healing - remains a top candidate for a heart donation, but this midnight drive from Maryland had been a disappointment. Dr. Joseph Rossano, medical director for heart transplantation at the Pennsylvania hospital, told Teresa's parents, Ed and Ann Bartlinski, that the heart, which came from a child who had died, appeared in an ultrasound to be healthy enough.
NEWS
September 8, 1998
Judith Colwell Lininger, a heart transplant patient whose illness inspired her to help others, died of heart failure Thursday at her Lutherville home. She was 57.A native of Teaneck, N.J., Mrs. Lininger graduated with a degree in art from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, in 1964.In 1962, she married John L. Lininger, whom she had met in college. The couple lived in Havre de Grace and in Bel Air before moving to Lutherville three years ago.Mrs. Lininger was a homemaker and substitute teacher who enjoyed painting portraits of children.
NEWS
By Arthur Hirsch and Arthur Hirsch,Staff Writer | October 30, 1993
The Tin Man knew there could be a day like this, if he only had a heart.Not a cloud in the sky and the sun flashing off his polished funnel hat and the red plastic heart dangling from his neck roughly marking the spot where the trouble began. The Tin Man's real heart filled with good will as he stood outside Marley Elementary School in Anne Arundel County yesterday afternoon waving and smiling as the youngsters walked by in their Halloween costumes.When the Grim Reaper approached with scythe aloft, the Tin Man smiled and let Death walk by. What else could a heart transplant patient do?
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen and Frederick N. Rasmussen,SUN STAFF | October 11, 2003
Donna Lynn Anderson, a former high school and college athlete whose survival of two heart transplant operations allowed her to continue playing sports and was an inspiration to others, died of renal failure Sunday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was 53 and lived in Ruxton. Miss Anderson was born and reared on Ruxway Road in Ruxton. She was a 1968 graduate of Towson High School, where she played varsity lacrosse, field hockey and basketball. A physical education major, she attended Catonsville Community College for two years, continuing to play lacrosse, field hockey and basketball.
NEWS
By Edward Lee and Edward Lee,Sun Staff Writer | June 28, 1994
Seven Oaks Elementary School performed a play about life in the Clinton White House for a dog named Shoes. Kingsville Elementary School connected a scene from the "Iliad" in which Patroclus is stabbed through the heart to the first heart transplant operation by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in 1967.And, when the world finals of the recent Odyssey of the Mind Tournament were over, both Baltimore County schools had finished in the top 10.Seven students from Seven Oaks in Perry Hall finished sixth among 55 teams in the Furs, Fins and Feathers category.
HEALTH
By Yvonne Wenger, The Baltimore Sun | November 28, 2012
Nobody believed Liu Fang, born with half a heart and abandoned in a village west of Beijing, would survive long after being adopted by a Baltimore County family. Even the Bartlinskis, deeply religious Catholics, expected the girl's lungs would fail even if her heart could be repaired. Two years later, as the 5-year-old girl awaits a cardiac transplant, her parents, a Catonsville school and the family's parish are literally praying for a miracle. She is awaiting the procedure at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.