Michigan patient waiting on double lung transplant says yes to wedding proposal

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – A Mary Free Mattress Rehabilitation Hospital affected person in Grand Rapids was proposed to final week.

Kaitlyn Sterling from Hubbell, Michigan, has been patiently ready on a double lung transplant.

The 25-year-old has been courting her boyfriend, Stan Myaskovskiy, for 5 years, and he determined to pop the query Thursday (Could 12).

Sterling fell ailing and was recognized with antisynthetase syndrome, a uncommon autoimmune dysfunction, in 2021. For weeks, she was in ICU on life help.

Since April, Sterling has been receiving intensive rehabilitation remedy and is on a waitlist for a double lung transplant.

Sterling has been in seven completely different hospitals all through her journey, and Myaskovskiy was by her aspect for all of it.

Earlier than her medical journey, Sterling obtained a bachelor’s from Michigan Tech and was working as a design engineer. She enjoys the outside and climbing within the U.P.

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“You imply absolutely the world to me,” Myaskovskiy advised Sterling in the course of the proposal. “And no matter hardships are forward of us, and no matter good occasions are forward of us, I’m totally dedicated to you.”

Sterling is now trying ahead to a future lung transplant and a marriage.

Click on right here for Sterling’s GoFundMe web page.