‘Constant fear’: lung patient’s long wait for transplant highlights urgent need

Raymond, 66, lived in constant fear of becoming a burden to his family in recent years as his lung disease, diagnosed 16 years ago, worsened, and he needed an organ transplant to survive.
The pulmonary fibrosis patient said on Thursday that he had waited to receive a lung transplant for more than two years after being placed on the waiting list in 2023. His brother, who suffered from the same condition, died three years after being diagnosed.
Pulmonary fibrosis is one of more than 200 lung…