Local woman is running out of time for a lung transplant
Time is running out for a local woman awaiting a lung transplant, and it’s the pandemic that might kill her even though she doesn’t have COVID.
Posted: Dec 29, 2020 5:56 PM
Updated: Dec 29, 2020 6:02 PM
Posted By: Kirk Tupaj
NEW YORK MILLS, N.Y. Bonnie Maynard is struggling to breathe while she waits for someone else to pass away.
She’s waiting for a lung transplant. She lost one lung from a fire 19 years ago, and has developed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in the remaining lung. It upsets me that someone has to pass away for me to get a lung. It’s bothered me from day one, I know that’s how it works, and it’s hard to get lungs…especially now with COVID, she said.