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Joyful Wedding for UCSF Transplant Patient 08.18.08  Carrie Shellhammer was only weeks away from death when she received two new lungs at the UCSF Medical Center in 2003. She and her mother had even chosen the songs to be played at her funeral. Happily, the same songs ended up being played at her wedding this month. "It's amazing, especially considering how debilitated she was pre-transplant," said Carrie's former doctor, Teresa De Marco, medical director of heart transplantation at UCSF, in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. "It was touch and go." Dr. Jeffrey Golden, UCSF's medical director of lung transplantation, cut short a Hawaii vacation and took a red-eye flight to attend his patient's wedding. "This is a big landmark," he said. "She has done very, very well. She is the reason we go to work every morning. The wedding is a huge event for our lung transplant team. It's the dream we have for all our patients - a normal life." Read the full story in the San Francisco Chronicle  Watch the video of the wedding Earlier story: Double-lung Transplant Patient Looking Forward to Ski Season  |
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