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@windwalker, yep under a year and truly better in about two months so the family and I got to have a great and thankful Christmas with my son, daughter, and daughter's fiance totally cooking dinner, they were so grateful that I was still her.
I know nothing about lung transplants since I have never known anyone to whom that has been a necessity. Is it less common than liver transplants? The last number I heard for liver was that there were about 17,000 and about 25 - 30% won't make it due to lack of donors. I have encouraged every one I know to be an organ donor. It is just the right thing to do unless it is against your religious beliefs. Why not? I am sure there are many people who would go on the list to be donors if they were more aware of the necessity. I think the other thing is that many procrastinate and don't get on. I have mentioned it to my son and daughter. Turns out she has been a registered donor for a long time. My son said he would but he never has said that he had. He is a true procrastinator.
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@contentandwell JK,
Lung transplants are not as commonly done as other organs because they are
the most delicate to do and survive. That however is changing as
medicine  and research get better. Today, only 60% survive past one
year let alone getting off the table. When I first looked into this
transplant seven yrs ago; people were only surviving 3-5 years afterwards.
Now, the norm is edging up to 10-13 yrs survival rate. Some have gone as
long as 19-20 yrs. They are currently working on using patient's own
T-cells to inject into donor organ to make it less likely to
reject.   I have been an organ for the last 25-30 yrs and so is
my daughter. Kudos to us for doing
so!