Between Breaths Pediatric Lung Transplant: Before & Beyond
Between Breaths is a podcast created by a transplant mom who lived pediatric lung transplant with her son, Ryder.
This space is for families navigating life before transplant, during the hospital journey, and beyond, including the grief that often walks alongside it.
When you’re in this world, Googling at 2 a.m. leads to fear. Clinical answers don’t always give you the real-life experience you’re searching for.
Between Breaths fills the space between medical information and lived reality .... through honest conversations, shared stories, and community.
You’ll hear from transplant parents, caregivers, medical professionals, and families who understand this journey, along with reflections for those waiting, healing, surviving, or grieving.
This is not medical advice.
It’s support.
It’s shared experience.
It’s a place to feel less alone.
If you’re waiting, post-transplant, or carrying the loss of a child or friend along the way, you belong here.
Episodes
8 episodes
Rejection, Recovery, and the Fight to Keep New Lungs
In Episode 8, I’m sharing what happened in the early weeks after Ryder’s bilateral lung transplant, when what looked like steady healing suddenly turned into another fight for his new lungs. After discharge, we were learning our new baseline th...
The First Breath of a New Life
After months of waiting in the unknown, the call finally comes.In this episode of Between Breaths, Courtney takes you inside the moment every transplant family dreams of and fears at the same time, the moment the surgery is over...
The Call
What really happens when a family receives the call for a lung transplant?In this episode of Between Breaths, Courtney shares the moment her son Ryder received donor lungs after months on the pediatric lung tran...
Oxygen Tanks & Hard Truths: The Science of Surviving the Wait
In Episode 5, we step away from the waiting room and into the grueling daily reality of surviving the transplant list. Because the truth is, waiting isn't quiet. It isn't sitting by a phone. It's an exhausting, physically draining marathon....
The In-Between Life : Waiting on the List
Episode 4: The In-Between Life : Waiting on the List"You’re living your life, but you’re also living on a runway. And you don’t know when the plane is coming."Being “active” on the transplant list isn’t a passive wait; it’s...
One Last Christmas and the Math of a Miracle
This episode of Between Breaths takes us into the delicate "in-between" of the transplant journey. The sacred, heavy space between the decision to move and the moment the phone finally rings.Courtney shares the emotional weight of ...
The Day the Air Changed
"I’m not leaving this hospital without the same kid I came in with."In this episode, Courtney takes us back to the "shatter point". The day a routine hospital stay for RSV turned into a race for Ryder’s life. From the silent shock of sit...
Our Story: Ryder and the Space Between Breaths
In this first episode of Between Breaths, Courtney shares the story behind her son Ryder’s pediatric lung transplant, and the space between fear and hope that defines this journey.From the moment transplant became real, to the w...