'People should not be made to choose between their life and losing everything they've worked their whole lives for.
"People should not be made to choose between their life and losing everything they've worked their whole lives for."
The process for transplant started in February when Derksen-Unrau said her specialist put her through to the transplant team, with testing starting in June."It's not 'Okay, your lungs are failing, you can have a transplant.' I have to meet all these certain criteria with all my other body functions...You've got to be sick enough but you can't be too sick."
"When I get the call to go for my lung transplant, I won't have days or weeks or whatever to plan, I'll be airlifted out of Princeton right after I get the call." "People are stepping up where they can. It's hard. My husband and I are not the ones to ever ask for help. We're always the ones that have been doing the help. And that's what we thrive on. So for us to actually put that GoFundMe up, was pretty hard," she said."I tell all the kids and my grandkids I'm not going anywhere.
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