In 2013, Katie Prager went to the University of Kentucky Center for CF Care in Lexington, but was told she could not receive a transplant at the facility because of a cepacia infection because the facility did not do transplants on CF patients with cepacia.
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Katie’s death comes five days after the death of her husband, Dalton Prager.
The young couple, Katie, 26, and Dalton, 25, is known worldwide after their story went viral for being similar to the story told by John Green “The Fault in Our Stars”. They were married in 2011 when they were both 20.
Katie Prager received a lung transplant past year and then developed lymphoma and had kidney failure.
Dalton Prager moved back to Missouri after a lung transplant in 2014 so his parents could care for him.
Her mother, Debra Donovan, wrote on Facebook that her daughter died in her bed, surrounded by family and dogs as she wished.
Dalton was in the ICU two weeks before passing away.
Her mother added on Facebook: “One important thing i have taken away from this is to live, just live.if there is something you want to do, don’t wait”. It appeared that she and Dalton would get a chance to finally spend real time together – until each developed complications after their lung transplants. Her lung transplant never adapted to her body. She was in hospice care in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, when her husband died.
In July the couple was able to get together for their fifth anniversary.
They fell in love and met despite the potential for Katie, of Kentucky, to contract Missouri-based Dalton’s unsafe and contagious infection called Burkholderia cepacia.
The funeral arrangements of Katie Prager would be announced soon.
“She told him that she loved him”, Debbie told CNN.
While the lung disease was clearly the source of Katie’s physical pain, we’re sure enduring five days of a broken heart didn’t help the matter.
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The couple, who first met on Facebook when they were 18, had a relationship that echoed that of the characters in “The Fault In Our Stars” with Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort.
