My Heart Journey, The First 90 Days: What They Don’t Tell You About Recovery (But I Will)

You waited for the call. You got the heart. Now what?
The surgery is just the beginning. In My Heart Journey, The First 90 Days, Fred Hueston picks up right where his first book (My Heart Journey: Waiting on a Heart) left off—at the moment he wakes up with someone else’s heart beating inside him.

What follows is a daily journal of his recovery—equal parts raw, funny, and real. He writes about the weird side effects no one warned him about, the emotional whiplash of being both grateful and overwhelmed, and the ridiculous things you never thought you’d celebrate (like finally getting to sit on a real toilet).

Fred shares his experience with candor and humor: from being tethered to 15 IV pumps to adjusting to a life where hand sanitizer is more important than pants. Along the way, he explains how immunosuppressants affect every part of life, what a heart biopsy really feels like, and how recovery isn’t always linear—but it’s still worth every single beat.

This book isn’t a medical manual. It’s a lifeline.
For fellow transplant recipients, caregivers, friends, or anyone who just wants to understand what happens after the miracle, this is the book that tells it like it really is—awkward, beautiful, painful, and full of hope.