'I was so lucky to receive an organ and have a second chance. I just want everybody that is stricken with a disease to be able to be in the same boat.'
As her lungs failed her, she was"not able to walk from one room to the other end without my machine," she said,"dragging the 21-liter oxygen tank with me."
Genie Kilpatrick recovers in the UT Southwestern Medical Center after her double lung transplant in 2016. She went to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where she underwent the delicate, challenging and, ultimately, successful surgery. Along the way, she never took her eye off the prize.
Genie Kilpatrick wanted to start practicing tennis as soon as she could, so she had her racket in the hospital after surgery.Her wife made big tennis posters for her to hang up on the walls, and for two months she says she was"in that hospital room and holding that racket in my hand.
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