‘I am so excited about the rest of my life’, says Isabel Terry after 15-year transplant wait

Three months ago, she underwent a high-risk double lung and heart transplant after a record 15-year wait.

‘I am so excited about the rest of my life’, says Isabel Terry after 15-year transplant wait

Isabel Terry has stunned medics — first by overcoming the complex surgery, and then by surviving a post-op stroke, a cardiac arrest, and kidney failure — to be well enough to return home for Christmas.

“I am just so excited now about the rest of my life,” she said.

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