New lungs and a new lease on life for Westmount man
The Westmount Examiner
"To be able to breathe, and walk, and play with my kids â€" it’s a gift that you can’t imagine,†Sokoloff said.
On June 25th, Jay Sokoloff woke up and did something he hadn’t been able to do for almost three decades: he took a deep breath.
Westmount resident Sokoloff, 41, had just become the recipient of a double lung transplant. And now, ten weeks later, he feels better than he has in decades.
“It’s like night and day,†he says. “A lot of people take breathing for granted, but when you haven’t been able to take a breath for years, it’s really refreshing.â€
Sokoloff was born with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that attacks the lungs and the digestive tract, making it difficult for him to breathe or to digest food.
As a kid, Sokoloff said, the disease didn’t affect him much, but as a teenager, the hospital visits began â€" first yearly, then more and more often. As he got older, he got sicker, and the disease started taking up more and more of his time. He became immune to his medications, which made it harder to fight off infections.
“It’s like night and day,†he says. “A lot of people take breathing for granted, but when you haven’t been able to take a breath for years, it’s really refreshing.â€
Sokoloff was born with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that attacks the lungs and the digestive tract, making it difficult for him to breathe or to digest food.
As a kid, Sokoloff said, the disease didn’t affect him much, but as a teenager, the hospital visits began â€" first yearly, then more and more often. As he got older, he got sicker, and the disease started taking up more and more of his time. He became immune to his medications, which made it harder to fight off infections.
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