Lodi News - Sentinal | Rich Hanner
Emma Greene is dancing again. Greene, 18, is also breathing deeper and better. She can go shopping without toting along an oxygen tank. And in September, she will start classes at the University of California, Davis.
Greene is back home in Lodi with a new liver and lungs following transplant surgery at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. It was the first such double organ transplant performed at the hospital, which is affiliated with Stanford University.
With a GPA of 4.5, Greene was the valedictorian of the Lodi High School Class of 2011.
This week, curled up on the couch of her family's home on Lodi Avenue, Greene recounted the surgery and its aftermath.
The post-op recovery was difficult, at times anguishing, but she's deeply grateful for her new energy and mobility.
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