The light at the end of the tunnel...

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is finally within sight!!!!

Yesterday I had my final " pre-listing " appointment at the Lung Transplant Clinic

at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston!! The medically supervised liquid diet

that I went on at the end of August worked to perfection and I weighed in a full

8 pounds UNDER the upper weight limit that they had set for me. All in all, I

have lost 32 lbs since starting! The doctors were very pleased...in fact, the

clinic coordinator even noticed the loss even before I had checked in! It was

music to the ears to hear - " wow, , you have really lost a lot of

weight! " .

So now, just a couple of final technicalities with paperwork, and the long

process to get listed will be complete! Once all the formalities are covered, I

was told to expect a call on MONDAY, letting me know that I am officially ACTIVE

on the transplant list. It was 2 years ago last month that I was diagnosed with

IPF. Two years ago, I had never even heard of this disease and never in my

wildest dreams would have imagined that I would be getting a lung transplant, or

any other kind of transplant for that matter. That was certainly not something

that was on my list for - where do you see yourself in five years? LOL

I would really like to thank everyone on here, as well as my Facebook friends,

for the amazing amount of support I have received throughout this whole process.

I am truly humbled to have so many great people keeping me in their thoughts and

prayers!!!

I'll be setting up a website soon, to keep everyone updated on my progress...as

soon as I have the address, I will post it for those that would be interested.

Steve aka...Knip UIP/IPF 9/07 VATS 12/07

57 Plymouth, NH