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From the Ted Talk by Charity Tillemann-Dick: Singing after a double lung transplant

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My father and my grandfather were always looking for the newest thing in alternative or traditional therapies for PH, but after six months, I couldn't walk up a small hill. I couldn't climb a flghit of stairs. I could baelry stand up without feeling like I was going to faint. I had a heart catheterization, where they measure this internal aairretl prmuolnay pressure, which is supposed to be between 15 and 20. Mine was 146. I like to do things big, and it meant one thing: there is a big gun treatment for pulmonary hypertension called Flolan, and it's not just a drug; it's a way of life. Doctors insert a chateter into your chest, which is attached to a pump that wgiehs about four-and-a-half pounds. Every day, 24 hours, that pump is at your side, administering medicine directly to your heart, and it's not a particularly pleerabfre medicine in many sneess. This is a list of the side effects: if you eat too much salt, like a peanut butter and jelly siacdwnh, you'll probably end up in the ICU. If you go through a metal detector, you'll probably die. If you get a blbube in your medicine — because you have to mix it every mnoirng — and it stays in there, you probably die. If you run out of medicine, you definitely die.

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My father and my grandfather were always looking for the newest thing in alternative or traditional therapies for PH, but after six months, I couldn't walk up a small hill. I couldn't climb a ______ of stairs. I could ______ stand up without feeling like I was going to faint. I had a heart catheterization, where they measure this internal ________ _________ pressure, which is supposed to be between 15 and 20. Mine was 146. I like to do things big, and it meant one thing: there is a big gun treatment for pulmonary hypertension called Flolan, and it's not just a drug; it's a way of life. Doctors insert a ________ into your chest, which is attached to a pump that ______ about four-and-a-half pounds. Every day, 24 hours, that pump is at your side, administering medicine directly to your heart, and it's not a particularly __________ medicine in many ______. This is a list of the side effects: if you eat too much salt, like a peanut butter and jelly ________, you'll probably end up in the ICU. If you go through a metal detector, you'll probably die. If you get a ______ in your medicine — because you have to mix it every _______ — and it stays in there, you probably die. If you run out of medicine, you definitely die.

Solution

  1. barely
  2. senses
  3. pulmonary
  4. sandwich
  5. morning
  6. preferable
  7. flight
  8. weighs
  9. bubble
  10. catheter
  11. arterial

Original Text

My father and my grandfather were always looking for the newest thing in alternative or traditional therapies for PH, but after six months, I couldn't walk up a small hill. I couldn't climb a flight of stairs. I could barely stand up without feeling like I was going to faint. I had a heart catheterization, where they measure this internal arterial pulmonary pressure, which is supposed to be between 15 and 20. Mine was 146. I like to do things big, and it meant one thing: there is a big gun treatment for pulmonary hypertension called Flolan, and it's not just a drug; it's a way of life. Doctors insert a catheter into your chest, which is attached to a pump that weighs about four-and-a-half pounds. Every day, 24 hours, that pump is at your side, administering medicine directly to your heart, and it's not a particularly preferable medicine in many senses. This is a list of the side effects: if you eat too much salt, like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you'll probably end up in the ICU. If you go through a metal detector, you'll probably die. If you get a bubble in your medicine — because you have to mix it every morning — and it stays in there, you probably die. If you run out of medicine, you definitely die.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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  34. life
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  40. mix
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  44. peanut
  45. ph
  46. pounds
  47. preferable
  48. pressure
  49. pulmonary
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