Letter to the Editor by Courtney Thompson
Currently, there are 116,000+ men, women and children waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant in the U.S. Every day 22 people die waiting with someone new added to the organ donor list every 10 minutes. One of those is Courtney, and this is her story. My name is Courtney Thompson, I’m 23 years old and on the waiting list for a double lung transplant. I have Cystic Fibrosis, a progressive genetic lung disease, and to beat it I’ll need a…