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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
- barely
- senses
- pulmonary
- sandwich
- morning
- preferable
- flight
- weighs
- bubble
- catheter
- 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.
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