Tuesday, April 16, 2013

New Lease On Life For South Shore Transplant Recipient!


Jessica Carver considers herself one of the luckiest people on the planet! The South Shore native, originally from New Germany and now living in HRM, underwent a double lung transplant just before Christmas. She had been living with, and was slowly dying from cystic fibrosis. Carver tells us it all seems now like she'd been living a bad dream for years but it had a very happy ending.



Carver says she's grateful she's been given a second chance at life. She tells us she would like to become more active in promoting organ donation, such as her proposal for on-line registration.




Carver says she will be on medication for the rest of her life to prevent her body from rejecting her new lungs. Her condition has even improved to the extent where she's considering returning to her career in a few months as a staff consultant for a metro-Halifax company.