Sudhir Choudhrie Book Tells the Tale of a Heart

Among a string of monumental lifetime accomplishments in the world of business, Sudhir Choudhrie can now add bestselling author to his amazing résumé. But the topic of the book he wrote involves a subject matter he would rather have avoided.

 

On the other hand, as Sudhir says: “Life is something that happens while you’re making other plans.” In this case, it was literally a fight for his life. That’s because his book, “From the Heart” tells the story of his lifetime of struggling with a defective heart –- a defect that almost killed him 20 years ago.

 

Born in Delhi, India, in 1949, Sudhir Choudhrie was diagnosed with a serious malfunction of a heart valve when he was just eight years old. The problem was detected during a routine physical exam. His doctors told his mother that her boy could expect serious heart problems for the rest of his life.

 

Those problems came to a head in the late 1990s. Then in his 50s, Sudhir Choudhrie found himself prone in a New York City hospital bed with just a few hours to live. His doctor –- the famous TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz -– told him that only a heart transplant could save his life.

 

The only problem was that a donor had not come available. Choudhrie was on the waiting list, hoping his number would be called according to the way the availability of organs is administrated by the medical system.

 

To make a long story short, a donor was found at a time when Choudhrie had just hours to live. Dr. Oz performed the procedure and Sudhir’s new heart took hold.

 

Today, that heart still beats in the chest of Sudhir Choudhrie more than 20 years later making him among the longest-surviving heart transplant patients in the world.