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Beatrice Wolcott: A Celebration of Life

Every day Beatrice Wolcott of Winchester struggled to breathe and needed a double lung transplant. Beatrice suffered from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and her lungs operated at a mere 25% of their capacity.

After nearly a decade of illness Bea was told that without a Double Lung Transplant she would die. She was added to the transplant list in May of 2012.  However, there’s more to a transplant than finding a donor... Read the rest here. http://iedarla.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/beatrice-wolcott-a-celebration-of-life/

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