Heart Transplant Patient Visits ArenaNet

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Just recently Massively posted a story about a high school girl diagnosed with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.  She received a heart transplant and a heart warming present from the Make a Wish Foundation.  Emily traveled to Seattle in order to visit the ArenaNet offices.  As an extra she spent time playing Guild Wars 2 with the staff.

“The tour was very detailed, and they completely opened up the office to us. She sat with artists, animators, programmers, designers, writers, QA team, etc., and they showed her what they do. Then we went to lunch with the section heads in the conference room (they have 200 people working there). She told them the story of how Guild Wars helped her deal with her miserable reality of heart failure and living in the hospital by being able to retreat to a fantasy world. They asked her questions about what she liked and didn’t, and she was very frank, and they took her criticisms along with her praise. She had a series of questions for them, which they answered with candor, even when the answer was, “I have no idea why we did that.”

-http://www.emilysatrium.org/2009/10/arenanet-wish.html

I wish the best to Emily in her recuperation!