We all experience extraordinary highs and lows in life.
Having Robert Emmet 's doctor tell him he had until Christmas to live was one of Emmet's darkest moments.
The diagnosis: an incurable disease called IPF - Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.
The disease was taking over Emmet's lungs.
At first, Emmet was in denial.
Then slowly he came to understand that the only way to survive the disease was to replace both of his lungs.
Preparing for that monumental task, including the .
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Mission Point Press Close to my heart: the terrifying, sometimes humorous journey to a double-lung transplant, paperback/robert emmet
