Over the past year, doctors repeatedly told Renato Aquino’s family to say their final goodbyes. His niece, Tasha Sundstrom even began making funeral arrangements.
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Last fall, Renato Aquino became so sick with COVID-19 that doctors said it might be time for the family to say goodbye.
But surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital brought him back from the brink of death.
I m alive! Aquino, 65, said, throwing his hands in the air, his voice still hoarse from having had a plastic tube poked down his windpipe for so long.
Aquino, who lives in Glendale Heights, is alive thanks to a double-lung transplant from a donor who also had COVID-19. Northwestern doctors said it s believed to be one of the first known COVID to COVID double-lung transplants in the United States.