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Educating 21st Century Leaders · Preschool to Grade 8 · www.glenburnieschool.com dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 www.carstaroakville.com SNA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR 2010 ontario's top newspaper - 2005-2008 905-8457579 547 Trafalgar Rd. Pink in the Rink Sports 905-847 -2595 2212 Wyecroft Rd. A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 51 No. 10 Waiting to take a breath "Using Communication To Build Better Communities" THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013 24 pages $1.00 (plus tax) A man's long journey for a set of new lungs By John Bkila OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Breathing is rarely something we think twice about during the day, but for Oakville's Keith Childerhose, it's all he's been focusing on for the last 15 years. At the age of 25, Childerhose was diagnosed with diffuse panbronchiolitis (DP). The severe and rare disease causes fluid to continually build up in the lungs, similar to cystic fibrosis, and is traditionally specific to men of Asian descent living in China -- a fact that had Childerhose (a Caucasian male in Canada), his doctors and his wife Sarah Taylor stumped. "He's definitely not Asian. He even had DNA testing to see if maybe he was Asian and didn't know it," Taylor, said with a laugh. "But the way lung diseases work, for every major disease there are permutations," she explained. "So my personal take on it is, what he has wasn't 100 per cent one or the other, but it most closely resembled this NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER / @halton_photog (DP), despite the fact he didn't have A TOUCHING MOMENT: Keith Childerhose has diffuse panbronchiolitis, a severe and rare disease that causes fluid to build up in the lungs.At Toronto General Hospital's Intensive all the markers for it." It started with the flu, which Care Unit (ICU) and on a ventilator, Childerhose, alongside his wife Sarah Taylor, is waiting for a double-lung transplant. He is on the waiting list at Status 2 (the highest priority). See Two page 3