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A Kentucky woman who thought she was going to the doctor for a cold but ended up with a horrible disease that forced her to get a double lung transplant and spend months on a ventilator has died.
Teacher Emily Presley, 46, went to the doctor for what she thought was a cold in May of 2022. Her husband said that before that, she was a 'picture of health' who rarely got sick.
She ended up in the hospital for 16 months after it had developed into severe infections and four months on an advanced ventilator that did the work of her heart and lungs.
Presley eventually suffered from infections that compromised her lungs and had a virus that caused inflammation throughout her body.
In October 2022, she had to go through a pair of double lung transplants within days of one another because ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) had destroyed her lungs.
A Kentucky woman who thought she was going to the doctor for a cold but ended up with a horrible disease that forced her to get a double lung transplant and spend months on a ventilator has died
Teacher Emily Presley, 46, went to the doctor for what she thought was a cold in May of 2022. Her husband said that before that, she was a 'picture of health' who
