'Monk' Actor Jason Gray-Stanford on His Heart Transplant Miracle: 'A Light in Me Was Almost Out'
While home for the holidays in December 2019, actor Jason Gray-Stanford was ending the decade on the healthy note that had become his routine: a low-salt breakfast, brisk walk with his dog Woodford in a park near his family’s Vancouver, Canada home, then a spin class.At 49, the LA-basedMonkstar had been diligent about managing the heart failure his doctor diagnosed in early 2018. (Heart failuremeans the heart is not pumping as well as it should, and it’s a chronic, progressive condition....