Dr. Marie Budev has seen hundreds of patients in her work as medical director of the Cleveland Clinic’s lung transplant program, but she has never seen anyone quite like Bryan Denniston of Tipp City.
Nobody else on the lung transplant list is in the habit of strapping 22 bottles of oxygen on three motorcycles and taking off for parts unknown on his 1992 Honda Goldwing 1500.
Denniston is the “Where’s Waldo?” of the more than 100 patients on the lung transplant list, checking in with his doctors and nurses from far-flung regions.
“Where are you?” the pharmacist asked when Denniston, 49, called in recently for a prescription.
“Key West,” he replied, having made the 1,063-mile trek in two days.
“On the bike there’s such a sense of freedom,” Denniston said. “I might live longer if I stayed here all day, waiting for the phone call that a donor had been found, but this has opened a whole new world for me.”
Budev said she has known other patients for whom “every day and every moment is special, who live with relish, but no one has done what he does.”
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