Lung transplant recipient is breathing on her own
SEATTLE — Heather Best, a 25-year-old East Wenatchee woman who has struggled to breathe for years, successfully underwent a double lung transplant on Wednesday night, her mother said Thursday. “The biggest thing we’re waiting for is for her to take that first breath,” Bobbie Best said from University of Washington Hospital in Seattle, where doctors replaced her daughter’s lungs with a new pair.