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While waiting for new hearts, women build loving friendship

For months, Niki Glass waited anxiously in Room 976 of the cardiac intensive care unit for the call that would save her life.

Nurses Shira Blanton, left, and Karl Kettlehut dance for a video with Niki Glass, left, and Karen Tompkins on Jan. 26, 2015 at Northwestern Medical Center in Chicago. Some of the heart patients wanted to make a video dancing to "Happy" by Pharrell Williams, and Niki and Karen helped out by participating. Glass, 37, and Tompkins, 52, became "heart sisters" at Northwestern Medical Center in Chicago where they were both waiting for heart transplants. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/TNS)
Nurses Shira Blanton, left, and Karl Kettlehut dance for a video with Niki Glass, left, and Karen Tompkins on Jan. 26, 2015 at Northwestern Medical Center in Chicago. Some of the heart patients wanted to make a video dancing to "Happy" by Pharrell Williams, and Niki and Karen helped out by participating. Glass, 37, and Tompkins, 52, became "heart sisters" at Northwestern Medical Center in Chicago where they were both waiting for heart transplants. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/TNS)Read moreTNS
    by Vikki Ortiz Healy, Chicago Tribune, McClatchy-Tribune
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