Lung Transplant Life

The Lung Transplant Experience is a real-time look at my journey as a 43-year-old who needed a double lung transplant in 2025.

I share what it’s like to go from early symptoms and diagnosis to treatment, decline, transplant, hospital recovery, going home, and starting a new life on immunosuppressants. My experience is a bit more dramatic than most people's, I almost died a few times in the hospital and the doctors were concerned that I might not make it.

I talk about the real story of lung disease, pre transplant, the transplant, and post, numbers, setbacks, wins, and the parts no one explains — what it feels like physically, what it does to your mindset, and what recovery actually looks like.

I spent 13 years in military medicine as an Army and Air Force medic. I understand medicine and explain it in plain language, but I AM NOT A DOCTOR. Nothing here is medical advice.

No drama or hype, just the facts of what the process is like for me, as well as others I'll meet along the way