Dave Wipprecht, a 41-year-old firefighter with tattoos who stands over six-feet-tall. He’s a motorcycle lover, a loving husband and is helping raise his infant grandchild. He has also received a heart transplant. Before June 2014, he never imagined it happening to him. “It was an infection that went to my bloodstream and attacked my heart,” Wipprecht said. He began having trouble breathing. Eventually, an echocardiogram revealed his heart was four times the normal size and working at 10 percent capacity. After emergency surgery to remove blood clots in his legs, Wipprecht said he settled into a bed at the Mayo Clinic Hospital to await a new heart.