Ocean Township Resident: "Living Again" After Double Lung Transplant
Ken Pape was losing an eight-year battle for his life. Lung disease had
left the 66-year-old increasingly weak, short of breath, and unable to
do vitually anything.Read Ken's story.
“I promised her [granddaughter] that I would make her 6th birthday party and I did. And here it is 5 years later and I'm still here, thanks to the hospital, doctors and everybody else.”
RWJBarnabas Health, performed the life-saving double lung transplant that Tony had been waiting for.
Following a heart and lung transplant at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Ethiel Fontalvo said, “I can walk — I do three miles now — and I can climb up the stairs. Before, I was out of breath after 12 steps.”