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Monday, January 30, 2012

Teenager days from death has life-saving double lung transplant after spending 10 years in hosital

The Daily Mail, UK | Sadie Whitelocks

A teenager who was planning her own funeral is enjoying a new lease of life thanks to a life-saving double lung transplant.

Casey Blunstone,16, was told by doctors that she had just days to live as cystic fibrosis had caused her lung function to drop to dangerous levels.

For the past ten years she had been confined to hospital as a result of her debilitating condition and operated on twenty times.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2093771/Teenager-given-days-live-life-saving-lung-transplant-spending-10-YEARS-hospital-planning-funeral.html#ixzz1kz7BPrs8

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