finally there's the latest tweet which is the one that made me the most skepctical and curious, you see here she describes complete removal of her lungs, first, left one in September 5th, then right one in december all the while connected to an ECMO machine (basically a mechanical lung that pumps oxygenated blood).
Now that...can happen you can live without both lungs removed while running on ECMO only but only for a matter of days (it's been done only once and it merited a case report) so let's chalk it up to being ESL and maybe patient ignorance and say that she will get lung transplants and ECMO support along the way instead (though she had previously said that it will be difficult to get those, can't find the tweet again sadly). We need to get technical here, such procedures are known to be done, it's called staged bilateral lung transplant, which is exceedingly rare and comprises a minority of lung transplants on top of that not many lung cancer patients get lung transplants, in fact only 29 lung transplants were performed for lung cancer out of 21,553 transplants between 1987 and 2010 (sources below).
https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.2024.42.16_suppl.8643#:~:text=Abstract-,8643,over%20the%20past%20two%20decades.
https://ccts.amegroups.org/article/view/51662/html#:~:text=In%20another%20study%20using%20the,diagnosis%20of%20BAC%20at%20transplant.
So all in all she has to be among the 1.4% of lung cancer patients aged 35 or younger, then has to get a transplant surgery that is done in about 6% of lung transplant cases on top of the fact that getting a lung transplan puts her in the 0.1% bracket of lung transplant patients whose surgery was done because of cancer, is this situation technically impossible? no, I can't in good faith say that but she would have to be a statistical rarity on top of a statistical rarity, I'm not great at math but she seems mathematically rare and unlucky.
And interesting fact by the way, you can't get a lung transplant unless you are 2 years free of cancer.
