Double-lung transplant recipient Gail Rhodes and her husband Robert recently celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary and the Prince George couple has many more to look forward to now that Gail is able to breathe on her own again with the gift of her donated lungs. - Citizen photo by Ted Clarke
Doctors in Edmonton took a photograph of Gail Rhodes diseased left lung after it was replaced by a donor lung in a 5 1/2-hour operation. The brownish tissue reveals the scarring of the disease indopathic pulmonary fibrosis which necessitated her double-lung transplant in October. - Handout photo
Gail Rhodes visits with her daughter Georgina after her lung transplant surgery at University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton.
Gail Rhodes got the call that a suitable donor had been found to give her a lung transplant andwas asked how long it would take for her to get to Prince George Airport. Considering she can almost. . .
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already has three kids. sue needs a bone marrow transplant to save her life. last week she called on folks to help. when doctors couldn t find her a match. what i need people to do is be the match. they send you a kit, a swab for your mouth, send it back. if you re my match, it s as simple as a blood draw. that can possibly save my life. shepard: people were listening. tens of thousands of people joint the donor registry. susie found her match. trace gallagher has this story live from l.a. shep, you talk about beating the odds. there s 30 million people worldwide on bethematch.org. none of them was a make for suzy. she s unique because she has kaw caution and hispanic dna. so her friends and family went on social media asking people to register. that got picked up by traditional media and people like carrie underwood retweeted the storying saying just saw
first marrow donor registry in the world and now it s part of a global network of registries that has just passed 23 million potential volunteer donors worldwide. it s been quite interesting to wonder what it would be like, and who you d be helping. years went by with no word on a potential match. in that time, he got married and had two kids. his family also experienced a devastating loss. well, we had a situation about 11 years ago where we had a child who wasn t going to be able to survive when born. and i didn t want to accept that there was nothing that could be done. there was no one to help his baby. but stuart hoped he could help someone else. he d have to wait more than two decades before he finally got that chance. if i m honest, i ve forgotten