“Finish in 8 hours, the time the operation lasted”: Alexandre Allain, transplanted with both lungs, at the start of the Grand Raid Ultramarin

2023-06-30 14:00:35

“I know what I owe him: to continue living! Alexandre and Antoine are united forever. The first, 27, was transplanted by the second, 49. It was in July 2017, Alexandre Allain, suffering from cystic fibrosis, had only 6% of respiratory capacity. “Just one step was a real struggle,” he says. I had to be put on oxygen. I moved around in a wheelchair. Without a transplant of both lungs, I was doomed. »