Susan Gore with her boyfriend, David "Davey" Bauer, who was the first-ever patient to undergo a new procedure that stabilized his heart while he was on the lung transplant list. - Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/TNS
CHICAGO — Before David “Davey” Bauer made history at Northwestern Medicine for a double lung transplant assisted by a pair of DD breast implants, he considered himself a fairly healthy guy. Bauer, 34, spent his hours off from his landscaping job in De Soto, Missouri — near St. Louis — golfing, snowboarding and skateboarding. Cigarettes, he thought, were the only negative. A former smoker who went through a pack a day for four years, Bauer switched to vaping in 2014. “I thought it seemed like a safer alternative,” Bauer said. “In hindsight, it seems like I should have just quit sooner ... it’s ...
