Capital Blue Cross is a prd supporter of your health checkup, a medical innovatn in smaller than the size oa fingertip stopped North Whitehall man from having o have a lung transplant.

But it also gave him a rean to keep moving forward.

One foot in front of the or one walk at a car without running out of breath.

To Charles Gladwel every sp counts.

People laughing I counted e steps in our home from our apartment to the elevator.

The Whitehall resident sufs from COPD and emphysema.

I smoked for 50 years and that's why my lungs are wht they are.

Charles, having been used o being very active, was stag to see that he wasn't ableo do the things that he would like to do with as much ase would like.

The former Marine and his pulmonologist, Dr Deborah a of St Luke's University Heh Network talked about lung transplant, but that has ae expectancy of five to ten years.

So another option send hima less invasive path in Febr.

2018.

We've had the option of quitting one way that leads into the most damaged partf the lung to help in essence deflate that part of the lg and allow the healthy portn of lung to function more properly, appropriately and help our patients breathe easier with COPD.

The 72-year-old underwent e procedure to have the tiny valves placed in his left .

I felt the difference almot immediately.

Just the next day I had moe oxygen.

I didn't have the stamina d because everything he owesa debt.

But you know, now he's hopg to be able to walk by his wife's side for years to c. Now doctors told God, well, with this lung valve, his e expectancy should be at let ten years for PCBs.

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