What happens when your body is shutting down… but you can’t feel a thing?
Mark Wilson was an avid marathon runner — healthy, active, and the last person you’d expect to face sudden heart failure. But when his Apple Watch kept flashing 225 BPM, he brushed it off as a glitch. Days later, doctors told him the unthinkable: his heart was failing and it could stop any moment.
In this powerful episode of When You Look, Mark shares his journey from “just tired” to a life-saving heart transplant, the moment he was placed on ECMO, and the peace he felt that made no sense apart from God. His story includes:
✔ The hidden heart disease that silently destroyed his heart
✔ Why elite-level running unknowingly kept him alive
✔ Being awake while on ECMO — and walking the hospital halls
✔ The helicopter arrival of a donor heart… and an unbelievable connection
✔ How prayer, faith, and supernatural peace carried him through
✔ How life, purpose, and family changed after receiving a new heart
If you need a reminder that God still works miracles — or that He’s present even when you can’t feel Him — Mark’s testimony will move you deeply.
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Chapters
0:28 - Meet Mark Wilson
1:32 - Mark's Backstory
3:03 - River House
6:19 - Going to the Hospital
8:16 - Transferred to VCU Hospital
9:32 - Giant Cell Disease
11:34 - Needing a Transplant
13:10 - ECMO
20:15 - On the Transplant List
22:13 - Heart Transplant Surgery
25:00 - New Heart Within a Month
26:58 - What Was It Like for You & Your Family?
29:49 - Shroud of Peace
30:51 - Waking Up With a New Heart
33:30 - Coincidence or God?
34:18 - How Has Your Life Changed?
35:47 - The Helicopter Pilot
36:55 - Final Thoughts