For Patrick Alexander, a 60-year-old father of three, his illness started with subtle symptoms like shortness of breath and fatigue. Within a year, he learned he had a rare and deadly lung disease. On his 30th wedding anniversary, he was rushed by ambulance ride to his local Fresno hospital and not long after, transferred to UCSF Medical Center, awaiting lung transplant. Patrick found out that he would be patient number 1,000 and became the recipient of healthy transplanted lungs.

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