Patient Stories

“Some patients recover sooner than others, it truly depends on the individual,”

“I have been blessed or lucky to have lived! Someone is looking out for me up there. Through faith in God, loving family and ...

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“I was petrified of climbing stairs,” she says. “Now, I’m more confident."

Seventy-year-old Anita Swallick, a part-time school bus driver from Perth Amboy, has lived with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

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“I promised my six year old granddaughter I would make it to her sixth birthday and I did."

Robert Regan, a 71-year-old grandfather of three from Lincoln Park, NJ, underwent a double-lung transplant at Newark Beth Israel ...

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"I feel like a whole new person, thanks to Newark Beth Israel Medical Center."

Ron Howard always led an active life. But that all changed in 2012 when the East Orange resident started experiencing shortness ...

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“Let’s put it this way: It was the best possible outcome in this scenario,”

It’s game, set, match for Sheila Gabaeff, whose lung cancer was diagnosed early and successfully treated at Somerset Medical ...

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“In my 20s and 30s I just pushed through it, but by the time I was 50, things were getting bad – I felt like I was 80."

After a lifetime of breathing difficulties, Janice can now finish a sentence without coughing. "It's the first thing my friends ...

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“I wasn’t granted two healthy lungs of my own. I want people with CF to know that there is hope – that life goes on."

Two years ago, 24-year-old Joe was tethered to an oxygen tank and fighting cystic fibrosis (CF) for every breath. This year, he ...

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Vietnam veteran and accomplished businessman William V. Larsen reclaims his quality of life through Pulmonary Rehabilitation at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway.

THE SHORTNESS OF breath began in 1968, a possible side effect from one year of exposure to Agent Orange and napalm during the ...

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