Robert Dowling Quotations

Our hope is that he lives months or years,

It's phenomenal. It's what we had hoped for, but we often hope for the best possible scenario. You don't often get it, but in this case we got it.

He's just happy to be here with us and happy to be able to breathe without any effort and get up and so forth,

If someone had said at two weeks' time after surgery you would be at this point -- 'What do you think about that?' -- we would have said 'Fine, we'll take it,'

When we first had him he was very aware of his limited survival of his own mortality, and I think every day that he has he views as a blessing, ... We had a video conference with some of the other surgeons and nurses that are involved in the project, and his one message to them was 'Life is wonderful.'

They look at the business as a business. They're out to make money.

But it's going to be up to him. I'm just speculating now ... but I think at least a couple of weeks, maybe a little bit longer,

Bob became a dear friend to all of us. We will miss Bob's laugh, his sense of humor and his fighting spirit. Our sympathy and support go out to his family and to all those who knew and loved Bob. His pioneering spirit will long live on in the fight against heart disease.