Egan: Bad heart, no pulse, man on machine awaits transplant

Jimmy Sullivan, 61, has an enlarged heart and no pulse — and hasn’t felt this good in years.
A commercial fisherman from a hamlet in Newfoundland and Labrador, Sullivan is a patient at the Ottawa Heart Institute and a kind of willing prisoner on the grounds of the Civic campus, unable to stray more than two hours away.
In February, in preparation for an eventual heart transplant, Sullivan was equipped with a $150,000 device called a left ventricular assist device, or LVAD, a mechanic