Opera Singer Needs Secound Lung Transplant
Monday, January 23, 2012
Charity Tillemann-Dick has performed in some of the most prestigious opera houses in the world, including the Lifebanc 25th Anniversary Gala in September 2011. But since Christmas Eve, she's been waiting for her second double lung transplant at Cleveland Clinic.
The beautiful soprano sound Charity Tillemann-Dick's voice produces, comes from the lungs of an organ donor. Pulmonary Hypertension required the opera singer to undergo a double lung transplant in 2009.
Since then, she's performed globally and even found time to get married, but now her lungs are failing and she needs a second transplant.
In a motivational speech she once said, "Life isn't just about avoiding death is it? It's about living. Medical conditions don't negate the human condition and when people are allowed to pursue their passions doctors will find that they have better, happier and healthier patients."
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