The holidays can bring up a lot of memories and emotions. We spoke to one Tampa man who says they remind him of how lucky he is to be alive. "I'm just appreciating the things in life we take for granted," Jack Dikranian said, sitting alongside his wife, Tiffany. "Going to dinner. Just as simple as it sounds, just doing something together, just having the next day together." Jack battled cancer as a child. The treatments left him with a weakened heart, which set the stage for a lifetime of health challenges. Last year, on Thanksgiving Day, Jack and his wife Tiffany got a call they'd been waiting for and desperately needed. Jack was being given a chance at a new heart, the solution to his congestive heart failure. "I got the call at 2:30 in the morning," Tiffany Dikranian said. "There's a donor heart available. We're going to match it in the next few hours. We'll let you know. The procedure then got scheduled for the day after Thanksgiving." But when the new heart began to fail, and a second transplant didn't appear to be a viable option, Tiffany and the Tampa General Hospital doctors were compelled to take a leap of faith. MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/heart-failure-procedure-pump-tampa-impella/67-313304ea-7815-4b12-85cd-6ebec5960090 ►Subscribe: https://on.wtsp.com/youtube ►Website: https://www.wtsp.com/ ►Facebook: https://facebook.com/10TampaBay ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/10TampaBay