Melissa Benoit snuggles with her daughter, Olivia, before receiving a double lung transplant. She was dying — and so were her chances of receiving a lung transplant that could save her life: Too sick, she was dropped from the transplant list. If everything went right, the devices could keep her alive until donor lungs became available. “They brought me back from death,” Benoit told The Post. She still faces hurdles as a lung transplant recipient, doctors said.

Source: Washington Post January 27, 2017 11:33 UTC