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| Jenny Hoyland with Carol Conrad, MD. Thanks to her new lungs, Jenny says she can "run upstairs in 19 seconds and down in 14 seconds." |
Packard doctors had diagnosed Jenny with CF when she was only six months old, and she’s been in their care ever since. Her health had begun deteriorating before the Hawaii trip, and her physician, Carol Conrad, MD, knew that a lung transplant would be her best hope. "Jenny was on the transplant list for two months when we found a donor," says Conrad. "I have three other kids who've been on the waiting list for more than a year."
After receiving her new lungs on Feb. 6, 2006, Jenny spent five weeks at Packard Hospital and an additional six weeks at the Ronald McDonald House before coming home in May. "She was always so chipper after her surgery," Conrad says. "She got to know everybody at the Hospital and always maintained a really great attitude."
Before her transplant, Jenny could barely run without breaking into a violent coughing fit. "Now I can run upstairs in 19 seconds and down in 14 seconds," Jenny gushes. "I play golf and I swim, which I couldn't do before without running out of breath and coughing."
Her overall health is great, Conrad says: "She has gained weight nicely and lives a normal lifestyle."
Jenny and her grandmother, Coreen Salberg, say they are grateful for the exceptional roundthe- clock care provided by Conrad and the Packard staff. "It's a wonderful place," Salberg says. "I wouldn't want her anywhere else."
Conrad says she always approaches the transplant issue with much trepidation because of the high risk of the procedure. "But when I see my patients in clinic and they look so normal, finally, and give me huge smiles and big hugs, I know it's all worth it," she says.
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