‘Second Wind’ Short Film Puts Focus to PF, Organ Donation

The Three Lakes Foundation, a nonprofit supporting higher methods of diagnosing and treating pulmonary fibrosis (PF), introduced the discharge of “Second Wind,” a brief documentary movie highlighting the necessity for organ donation.

The documentary tells the story of Nick Brown of Indiana and his years of wrestle till his PF was appropriately recognized and the transformation in his well being after receiving a double lung transplant.

“Whereas practically 1,500 folks actively waited for a lung transplant final yr, a further 2,219 had been added to the ready listing. We hope this movie will encourage folks to contemplate organ donation,” Dana Ball, govt director of Three Lakes Basis, stated in a press release.

Brown shares his prognosis to transplant journey in “Second Wind,” and his willpower to unfold consciousness of PF and the significance of organ donation.

“Whenever you’ve obtained pulmonary fibrosis, slowly however certainly you’re declining and all the pieces’s getting more durable. Not simply respiratory, however taking a frigging bathe,” Brown stated within the movie. Inside two years of lastly being recognized — after being examined for illnesses starting from allergic reactions to acid reflux disease — he was hospitalized and on fixed liquid oxygen use.

“My lungs had been simply giving out, and I nonetheless wasn’t on the transplant listing,” Brown stated. His medical doctors pleaded his case, seeing his solely alternative that of a transplant or end-of-life hospice care. Their efforts received the younger man a spot on the high of  the lung transplant ready listing, and a few six hours later, a donor lung match.

Inside one other six hours, his transplant surgical procedure was underway.

Waking up two days later, Brown remembers his “first thought” was to take “the deepest breath I may. It was simply the sweetest sensation on the planet.”

“Nick’s case is a testomony to only how important a well timed prognosis of PF is,” stated Michael Duncan, MD, medical director of the Lung Transplant Program at Indiana University Health and Brown’s transplant surgeon. “If his prognosis was delayed any longer and his PF continued to progress, he probably wouldn’t have been a candidate for the present of organ donation.”

The muse sees this documentary, which runs for about eight minutes, as a solution to help affected person teams and organ procurement organizations by means of the telling of a private story that raises consciousness of PF, a progressive lung illness characterised by the thickening and stiffening of lung tissue, and evokes folks to behave and turn into organ donors.

“I actually imagine that everybody ought to signal as much as be an organ donor,” Brown stated within the launch. “It’s an incredible present that you would be able to give any individual.”