{"id":7119,"date":"2023-08-03T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=7119"},"modified":"2023-08-02T07:44:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:44:58","slug":"how-a-double-lung-transplant-affected-my-body-and-self-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/08\/02\/how-a-double-lung-transplant-affected-my-body-and-self-image\/","title":{"rendered":"How a double-lung transplant affected my body and self-image"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7119\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>Accepting the scars and a new physique wasn&#8217;t easy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Lara Govendo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After I had a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cysticfibrosisnewstoday.com\/cystic-fibrosis-lung-transplant\/\">double-lung transplant<\/a>&nbsp;six years ago due to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cysticfibrosisnewstoday.com\/cystic-fibrosis-overview\/\">cystic fibrosis<\/a>&nbsp;(CF), it was hard to look at myself in the mirror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would stare at my stapled chest, and feelings of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cysticfibrosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/learning-walk-alongside-grief\/\">disbelief and grief<\/a>&nbsp;would bubble to the surface like never before. Thoughts raced through my mind:&nbsp;<em>What will people say when they see my scars and disfigured chest? How will I ever feel comfortable in my own body again?<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/cysticfibrosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/how-double-lung-transplant-affected-body-self-image\/\">Read the complete article <\/a>in Cystic Fibrosis News Today.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7119\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Accepting the scars and a new physique wasn&#8217;t easy By Lara Govendo After I had a&nbsp;double-lung transplant&nbsp;six years ago due to&nbsp;cystic fibrosis&nbsp;(CF), it was hard to look at myself &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/08\/02\/how-a-double-lung-transplant-affected-my-body-and-self-image\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How a double-lung transplant affected my body and self-image&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46],"tags":[855,2032],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"1","views":"1223","post_likes_plusCounter":"1","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7125,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions\/7125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7119"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=7119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}