I Survived Ards Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome


Only 60% of those affected survive.

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I Am Grateful to Be Alive!

On December 21, 2007, I received a liver transplant after suffering for several years with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. Everything...

Survived, And Now Trying To Keep Up...

I was in a deep coma for 4 months from ARDS, asperated, 2 collapsed lungs, PE, PI, 12 blood clots, no pulse, 6 hours w/little oxygen, pulse...

A Summer Like No Other

June 2009 began with an asthmatic bronchitis diagnosis for me. I was on antibiotics when I left for a week cruise to Alaska with my family...

Still Feel Vulnerable To Ards

Hi everyone.  I want to share my story.about ARDS.  I want to begin by saying that I have had many years of bouts with binge alcoholism...

Four Years Ago I Was Near Death But I Survived

On September 19, 2005, after helping my daughter move the day before, I awoke with what I thought was a pulled muscle in my back. I kept...

My Friend.....

My bestfriend is the strongest person I know. She had Acute Respiratory Distress in Iraq from a IUD she was working as a Sarg. Medic. She...

I Survived Ards In 2009

On September 27, 2009 I was admitted into the Hospital and put in the Intensive care Unit. I went to the Emergency room because I had been...
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  • "She has been having side effects on and off and getting worse, shortness of breath and low blood pressure from high blood pressure..."
  • "On the third day after the transplant I began having difficulty breathing and the best that I can describe was asthough a large man was standing behind me with a deathgrip around my chest and I simply could not get what seemed like a teacup full of air in my lungs..."
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57% of people who have this experience are in their forties, 14% are in their sixties, and 14% are in their thirties. 100% of people who have this experience are women.

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