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William McNeely survived a double lung transplant in 2019 and then COVID-19 in 2021.
William McNeely lives by a simple rule: never judge someone by how they look on the outside.
“So, when I look at someone I don t automatically think that they have it all together,” McNeely said.
That’s because the 57-year-old knows firsthand that appearances can be deceiving.
“You couldn t see that my lungs were destroyed, he said. And you can t see right now that I m on all these immunosuppressant drugs all the time.”
On average, McNeely takes about 30 pills every day, and they have an important job to do to help keep his body from rejecting his new lungs.