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HEALTH - Action Evans Wilson (62) following the Seattle Marathon calculated brinkmanship. Not because he was no longer young, but he is struggling with progressive lung disease, namely pulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension.
Doctors protest with Evans desire to follow the event marathon run of 26.2 miles or 42.195 kilometers of it.
According to doctors, a serious disease of the lungs that can be life threatening Evans. Even doctors never predict Evans only had time to live for 3 years after diagnosis.
However, a decision Evans already inviolable. He followed running a marathon was to raise public awareness about the disease and raise funds research.
Premises perisiapan mature, Evans finally fixed following the Seattle Marathon. Remarkably, Evans ran while carrying an oxygen tank. He was wearing an oxygen mask long run dozens of kilometers to help with breathing.
Not unexpectedly, Evans successfully completed marathons in less than 11 hours. Before being diagnosed with the lung disease, Evans is already often the competition run.
Formerly, he was able to complete one mile in less than five minutes. However, after the diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis, 1 mile Siciliani up to 1 hour.
Evans got the diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis in 2011 after feeling pain in his knee. Over time, he began often feel claustrophobic, it was difficult to breathe or speak.
Later, he was also exposed to pulmonary hypertension. The disease makes lung tissue is damaged so that also block blood vessels from processing oxygen.
Although doctors never expected to live Evans just three years away, in fact, is now 5 years passed.
The only way to increase the chances of his life at the moment is with a lung transplant. However, the queue list to receive a lung transplant patients is very long.
Evans claimed to run a marathon this time is very heavy and painful. But he wanted to fight for the people affected by pulmonary fibrosis. The funds collected will be handed over to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.
