Ten-year-old Sarah Murnaghan has end-stage Cystic Fibrosis and has been on the lung transplant list for 18 months. Too sick to leave Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for three months, she has only a week or two before she will lose her battle. If she were two years older, she would have a high probability of receiving lungs in time. Sarah is eligible for adult donor lungs, but because of her age, she will only receive them after all adult candidates, regardless of how sick they are, have the opportunity to accept them.
Please sign this petition (click here) to Change Policy to Allow Pediatric Transplants of Adult Lungs Based on Medical Necessity. Lastly, please share this with others to sign.
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pink, shriveled balloon,
weakly inflated, deflate
whispered struggle into age. My own passage,
mother rushed to the hospital, son’s body seizing any chances
Air, so rushed
obtain! obtain! relinquish! never harbored for long
Labored, shriveling
does a signature deliver breath?
sunlight raising hair
knees, wet grass
fur on fingertips
arms out, hanging aside hot metals, car zipping
any moment, just one
obtained, relinquished, clear as these lungs may savor
