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Jessica Alice Farrell receives funding from the National Save The Sea Turtle Foundation, The Sea Turtle Conservancy, Florida Sea Turtle Grants Program, the Save Our Seas Foundation and the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center Inc d/b/a Friends of Gumbo Limbo (a 501c3 non-profit organization). She is affiliated with the University of Florida Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience & Sea Turtle Hospital.
David Duffy receives funding from the National Save The Sea Turtle Foundation, The Sea Turtle Conservancy, Florida Sea Turtle Grants Program, the Save Our Seas Foundation, the Welsh Government Sêr Cymru II and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program. He is affiliated with the University of Florida and Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland.
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In a year when covid-19 shattered the pleas of so many who prayed for miracles, a Georgia man with two new lungs is among the fortunate.
Mark Buchanan, of Roopville, received a double-lung transplant in October, nearly three months after covid left him hospitalized and sedated, first on a ventilator and then on the last-resort treatment known as ECMO.
“They said that it had ruined my lungs,” said Buchanan, 53, who was a burly power company lineman when he fell ill. “The vent and the covid ruined ’em completely.”
At the time, only a handful of U.S. hospitals were willing to take a chance on organ transplants to treat the sickest covid patients. Too little was known about the risks of the virus and lasting damage it might cause, let alone whether such patients could survive the surgery. Buchanan was turned down at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, according to his wife, Melissa, who said doctors advised her to withdraw treatment and allow him to die peace