Heaven Sent' Nurse Takes In Homeless Man So He Can Receive A Heart

Because of the boundless compassion from a ‘heaven sent’ nurse, a homeless man is taken in so he can receive a heart transplant in order for him to live.

Jonathan Pinkard is an autistic man who was raised by his grandmother. But when she died a few years ago, there was no one else in his life that he could go to live with.

“If I wasn’t staying at the shelter, I was staying in my car. I had nowhere to go,” says Jonathan.

At 26 years of age, Jonathan was diagnosed with heart failure by the doctors at Piedmont hospital in Georgia. They said that he needed a heart transplant or else he was only going to be able to live for 6 more months, at most.

The problem was that you can’t get a new heart or even get on the transplant list if you don’t have a home or some kind of support system to help you post surgery. And given Jonathan’s situation, there was no hope for him to get a new heart.

That was until Lori Wood stepped in. Although there was nothing that Lori could do for Jonathan as his nurse, she decided that there was one thing that she could do as a mom.

“It was just in my heart that there was no other choice, other than to bring him home,” Lori shares.

She only knew Jonathan for 3 days, but that didn’t stop Lori from inviting him into her home and becoming his legal guardian. He started living with her and her son, Austin, and because of this new situation, Jonathan was able to get on the transplant list. And just a few months ago, he was able to get a new heart.

But Lori says that even when Jonathan heals from the surgery, she will still be there to take care of him.

“He’s a part of the family,” Lori explains.

“I wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for her,” says Jonathan. “I just call her Momma now. She’s like a second momma to me. Heaven sent.”