{"id":80498,"date":"2025-10-13T07:46:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=80498"},"modified":"2025-10-13T07:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:46:30","slug":"woman-53-becomes-uks-longest-survivor-of-heart-and-lung-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/13\/woman-53-becomes-uks-longest-survivor-of-heart-and-lung-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 53, becomes UK\u2019s longest survivor of heart and lung transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1OkHtm.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6&amp;x=473&amp;y=177&amp;s=586&amp;d=586\" alt=\"Katie Mitchell said her donor and surgeons at Papworth hospital had given her \u2018the gift of a normal life\u2019. Photograph: NHSBT\/PA\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the age of 15, medics feared Katie Mitchell was coming to the end of her life after suffering irreversible lung damage and heart failure from a rare congenital disease. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/woman-53-becomes-uk-s-longest-survivor-of-heart-and-lung-transplant\/ar-AA1OkAa9?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=c021dae6089a4f6c847458958c1d6f2f&amp;ei=11\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>At the age of 15, medics feared Katie Mitchell was coming to the end of her life after suffering irreversible lung damage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Katie-Mitchell.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80500,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80498\/revisions\/80500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}