Betcha never thought fake knockers could literally save a life, did you?
Breast implants played a crucial role in saving the life of a Missouri man who underwent a double lung transplant earlier this year at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
All of us leaning in to read this one right now:
Actually the background is hardly even funny. Thirty-four-year-old Davey Bauer had smoked for years before switching to vaping, thinking it was a better alternative. Apparently it wasn't really: He eventually "started suffering from shortness of breath in April," was then "diagnosed with the flu," and eventually "developed an antibiotic-resistant infection in both lungs."
His lungs, according to medical officials, were filled with pus; they were in such bad shape, one doc said, "that they started to liquefy."
Oof.
The man needed a lung transplant. So the doctors at Northwestern Medicine gave him one. They "used an external artificial lung to keep him alive." And to ensure that his heart was in the right place (literally), they took a very novel approach:
[Doctors] placed DD breast implants in his chest cavity to keep his heart in place.
Doctors lining up outside the emergency room to see THAT procedure like:
And it worked! Within 24 hours, "doctors found a transplant match to replace his infected lungs, and two days after his lungs were removed, the breast implants were removed and the donor lungs were put in."
"I feel so blessed. I mean it's incredible. I got a second chance at life," Davey said after the lifesaving procedure.
It's a new dawn of medicine, folks!
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