CLINTON, S.C. -- A 14-year-old girl will soon be on her way back home to Clinton, S.C., after two heart transplants and surviving without a heart for nearly four months between the surgeries.

D'Zhana Simmons was released from a Miami hospital on Wednesday.

Surgeons at Holtz Children's Hospital in Miami believe this is the first time that two pumping devices have been used to temporarily replace the heart of a pediatric patient.

Last spring, D'Zhana and her parents learned her heart was too weak to sufficiently pump blood. They traveled from their home in Clinton to Miami for a heart transplant.

The new heart didn't work properly, and it was removed two days later.

D'Zhana said she felt like a "fake person" for the 118 days between the transplants as she lived with artificial heart pumps -- but no heart.

The successful heart transplant was performed on Oct. 29.

Doctors said D'Zhana should be able to do most things other teenagers do, but she does have a 50-50 chance of needing another heart transplant before she turns 30.

She plans to celebrate her 15th birthday this Saturday on a boat off the coast of Miami before she heads home to South Carolina.