CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell June 4, 2024 18:47:00
To find an bed for him. we had him flown to atlanta. actually dr. barrett flew down and got him and put him on ecmo. >> and that's a super charged ventilator? >> like a lung machine. he would still be on the ventilator, kind of letting his lungs rest, but the blood would be taken out of his body going through an oxygeniator, going good, rich, oxygenated blood to his organs. he was on that nine weeks. >> nine weeks. >> and at some point you got the news he was going to need a double-lung transplant. blake, were you conscious during this? were you aware that you were going to need a lung transpl...