Story last updated at 1:23 a.m. Saturday, March 15, 2003 Lubbock is trip of a lifetime for patient BY CHARLES L. EHRENFELD AVALANCHE-JOURNAL José Tercero received a second chance at life, and it came from somewhere he never would have thought to look. While exercising two years ago, the San Salvador, El Salvador, resident felt his left arm go numb. "They discovered an aneurysm and a dilated aortic valve," Tercero, 44, recalled Friday. "At that time, it was big enough to warrant surgical repair." To complicate the matter, when he began searching for a surgeon to perform the life-saving heart...
