Now, he's the one receiving end, becoming the first person to receive a liver and lung transplant at Northwestern Medicine.Wise words from Collera, who now has a new outlook on life thanks to Northwestern Medicine.Collera, a retired Northwestern Medicine nurse, was diagnosed with a lung and liver disease in 2017.
"My life before the surgery for months and over a year was a miserable one," Collera said. "I was dragging oxygen tubing where I wanted to." Collera needed a lung and liver transplant, a procedure so rare and complex that only 10 operations have been performed in the United States this year. Just 10 days after being listed for the transplant, Collera received the call that would ultimately save his life.
Northwestern medicine saved my life when I had Covid by giving me Hydroxychloroquin. God bless every single one of those people.