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New Balloons

How New Lungs Helped Me Fly

Leanne DeMers

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English
Aurora House
26 October 2018
Can you imagine sucking air through the tiny hole in your closed fist or spending twenty-four hours sucking air in and out through a plastic straw? Imagining is hard when breath comes easily to you. It is something humans do every day. Something we all take for granted. Breathing was a luxury Leanne thought she would always have... until it was taken away from her.

Cystic fibrosis stole Leanne's young life, acquainting her with a journey of failing health and, ultimately, leaving her knocking on death's door. The propitious hopes of a medical miracle became a life line, with a double lung transplant being Leanne's only hope for survival.

New Balloons is a passionate and honest memoir that will take you on a physical and emotional roller coaster ride of life with failing lungs. Wearing her heart on her sleeve, Leanne faces her own death with a valiant strength and resilience, reminding us of the most important things in life. Hope resonates through her words and draws the reader into a warm repository of emotion. Her positivity in the face of adversity echoes of a reality very few of us have faced. A candid and thoughtful insight into organ donation through the eyes of a lucky and grateful recipient.

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Imprint:   Aurora House
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   458g
ISBN:   9780648350903
ISBN 10:   0648350908
Pages:   396
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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