Lifesharing volunteer LeeAnn Pusateri marked the 10th anniversary of her double-lung transplant in October 2024. A decade ago, LeeAnn was on death’s doorstep, suffering from pulmonary fibrosis. The autoimmune disease ravaged her body and essentially turned her into a walking skeleton. (She withered away to a mere 85 lbs.) Breathing for LeeAnn was like sucking air through a straw — she had to carry her oxygen tank everywhere. Her children feared their mother would die at any moment. Then LeeAnn got “the call” from her transplant center: they had identified a pair of matching lungs from a deceased organ donor. LeeAnn hustled to the hospital for surgery and wrote ‘goodbye’ letters to her children, just in case she did not survive the operation. Thankfully, she not only survived — she thrived. A volunteer for Lifesharing for more than a decade, LeeAnn has used her new lungs to speak to 500 classrooms and educate 31,000+ local students about organ donation. Lifesharing’s high school outreach efforts are led by Christy Heymann.