Homecoming
By Adam Justice | February 4, 2000Mark Lindsey held the machine that once kept his heart beating in front of him. "It's unreal that this thing was in me," the former University football lineman said. The LVAD machine operated as an artificial left ventricle: While the machine kept his heart alive for the past six months, it also, through a major defect, once leaked substantial amounts of blood, nearly killing him.