Eleven years ago, she was given eighteen months to live and placed on a lung transplant list. Just the hope improved her existence and our whole family’s attitude went from negative to positive.
After a few months, she started to receive calls about suitable donor organs that had become available. We would all race to the hospital for a chance to receive the transplant. Due to different reasons, the available organs weren’t usable. After seven dry runs to the hospital, three years and four months after being placed on the list, she weighed 86 lbs and could do virtually nothing. She looked like a cadaver and was down to less than eight percent of lung capacity. She was on 6 liters of oxygen 24 hours a day and never really breathed restfully. Her color was gray and we knew she had outlived every medical persons expectations. We feared she would die before a suitable lung became available.
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