Ben Askren

Where do you get lungs from?

That's what I said.

I don't know.

I actually wrote to the donor family.

The donor family has not responded.

Yeah.

You can't mix and match two lungs.

Oh, I actually think you can.

No, I know you can because I talked to a guy in the hospital about it.

You know, that's where you think about life and you think about gratitude and

You never want to take anything for granted.

And I always think about the people I meet in the hospital.

Now, this is a while ago, probably four months ago, but I was in for one of my kind of routine checkups.

And this guy comes up to me and, you know, I'm waiting to go inside, you know, to meet the doctors.

And so a lot of the same similar type people in a similar area.

So he had a lung transplant.

And, you know, I think, okay, I was unconscious for 36 days.

I was in the hospital for, I think it was 73 total or something, which is quite a long time.

And it wasn't fun.

But then this guy was in the hospital for nine months and he was sick and he got a double lung transplant.