Pieces of consciousness.
Oct. 25th, 2007 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The beautiful
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I was scared for her at first, because I'd watched
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But of course, she knows better than I - she has the disease and has been dealing with it beautifully all her life. And there are lots of girls who have had successful transplants and have much-improved lives for it. And when she suddenly got progressively sicker over the last couple months, I was suddenly very aware of how hampered her life had become. It got to the point that some treatments had to be postponed until after her transplant, because she was just too ill to survive invasive procedures.
I am so happy for her that she received her lungs when she did. (It is a waiting game - waiting for someone to die at the right time and place with the right organs.) The procedure took longer than expected due to the extremely poor condition of her lungs. They needed to go. Medicine is a beautiful, amazing thing. If anyone's life is worth saving, hers is.
She is an incredible, angelic person and I cannot wait to watch her get healthier with her new happy healthy lungs.