Sarah Murnaghan, the little girl who had lung transplants, waved and blew a kiss in a new video.
The 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl received two adult-lung transplants to save her life. Her case made headlines because it involved her parents fighting a rule preventing her to qualify for adult lung transplants.
“I love you, too,” she said in the video, reported ABC News.
Murnaghan had to get adult lungs infected with pneumonia because she ran out of options, her parents said.
“They were Sarah’s best and only hope,” her parents wrote in a June 28 statement. “The second transplant operation was truly a success.”
Earlier this week, The Associated Press reported that the girl’s operation went well.
“Sarah is still mostly sedated, waking periodically in pain, so aggressive pain management is underway,” mother Janet Murnaghan said Tuesday.
She added that the girl’s chest tube was still in place.
“Whether her other muscles are strong enough to do the job of breathing after extubation or if she needs a temporary tracheostomy while we recondition her muscles,” she continued.
Sarah Murnaghan has been in the hospital for several months with severe cystic fibrosis.
Last month, a federal judge had to step in to prevent U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from enforcing a rule to prevent the girl from getting a transplant.
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