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www.lthousingsupport.caA LUNG TRANSPLANT COMMUNITY-LED INITIATIVE

When new lungs are your only chance of survival—most patients and their loved ones—would sacrifice almost anything.

But sometimes almost is not enough.

To qualify for a life-saving transplant, each patient and their caregiver must live near Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), where all lung transplants are performed in BC, for a minimum three months post-transplant care.

By the time most patients get ‘the call’ that donor lungs are available and surgery is imminent, their health is failing, they no longer work and they’re drawing on financial reserves.

For those who live outside Vancouver, the requirement to maintain two homes—their permanent residence and a temporary home near VGH following surgery, is often financially impossible.

That’s why BC’s lung transplant community stepped in. With support from the BC Lung Foundation, we’re creating a lasting legacy of financial support to ensure BC lung patients and caregivers have a reliable place to turn for emergency financial help—and to do so, we need your help.

My husband and I cannot express the relief and gratitude we felt when we learned LT Housing Support understood the crisis we faced and was happy to provide the help we needed to make it through.

Please help us close the gap in support for BC lung transplant patients in financial crisis. Donate today! www.lthousingsupport.ca

Photo left to right: LT Housing Support Co- Founders Dennis Josey, Bob Mellor and Darcy Murdoch, each a BC lung transplant recipient determined to leave a lasting legacy of support for future patients and caregivers.