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Article: The Breath of Life; After Double Lung Transplant, a Second Chance
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- The Washington Post
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- January 30, 1997
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It happened when the August weather was more like April's. Ian
Ferguson and his family were halfway home from an after-dinner
frozen custard in Rockville when his pager went off, a signal from
University of North Carolina doctors who were planning to try to
save his life with a double-lung transplant.
"That was the scariest moment of my life, that one second it
beeped," Ferguson said. He said that his wife, Lindsey, "recalled it
was like slow motion, the way I looked down at my beeper."
As the significance of the signal set in, both Fergusons
panicked when neither could remember how to unlock their cellular
phone to return the call. "We raced through Rockville to get home."
With his ...