Robbie's encore

09/27/2025

My donor gave me a superpower.
It isn't just me it is we :)

09/17/2025

September 14th 2025
At this time, 4:00 AM, thirty days ago, I was thirty minutes into my double/bilateral lung transplant surgery. It would change my life so much in eight and a half hours that it is beyond compare. I went from walking 6 to 10 feet on four to six liters of continuous oxygen and having to take a break to walking 170 feet the day after surgery. Last night, after dinner, I walked ten blocks totally unaided.

On my 1st lung function test since transplant (9/12), I got 100% of predicted FEV1(Forced expiratory volume in one second). A difference of 414% better than my last one. My FEV1/FEC is now 84 from the teens that it has been for years. The PET scan, MRI, and CT scan all came back clear. Overall, they said I was doing remarkably well for someone as sick as I was for as long as I was.

Much thanks and love to my young donor, the amazing UCSF medical staff, and our ever-loving Creator, who has always looked out for me even when I was at my worst.
I must also thank so many of you who inspired me by sharing your daily trials and troubles, donated financially to my recovery time so that I can do so peacefully, knowing my expenses and my family's are covered instead of constantly worrying about it, and sharing this beautiful, amazing moment now. :) 💚🫁✌️

09/16/2025

I took a walk downhill from the labs, which I attend twice a week. At noon, I went to the hospital's outpatient center for a bronchoscopy and biopsy of my lungs. I chose not to be put under anesthesia and was only numbed with lidocaine. The doctor noted that my lungs appeared more advanced in healing compared to a month ago, attributing this improvement to my walking and deep breathing exercises.

So far, I have passed all their tests with the highest scores, and I hope the biopsy results will come back perfect! :)

09/05/2025

In 2005, while liiving in San Francisco for 6 months I found this beautiful church by getting lost and needing to use a restroom. It only had between 12-20 members at the time which was sorta surreal as it is huge inside. Its members were from every walk of life and the group of them got together to worship, share a good word, with fellowship and food afterwards. They started each service with Communion.
The interior of the building is dark with huge Redwood open beam ceiling and all wooden construction. It is lit up by large, beautiful, multiple stain glass windows.
After going there for a couple weeks they gave me a very nice Bible signed by all of them. Unknowing to them it was my birthday that day.
While writing this I recalled that the church had a separation between the pastor of the church and the trustees of the church with the pastor leaving and many of the members following him. Across the street at the dog park there was a fake concrete Bart Station entrance made for the movie "The Pursuit of Happiness." Starring Will Smith. It remained there until 2016 when the City demolished it. I will try to go there this Sunday and get some interior photos to share. Monday will make twenty years from the date they gifted me the bible.
Dates: constructed 1906
This Mission Revival church stood on the southeast corner of Noe Street and Duboce Avenue across the street from Duboce Park in 1909.

09/05/2025

Meet my 81 year old father, Robert Senior. He is currently my caregiver as I recover from double lung transplant surgery. He is a dropout from the early seventies that moved out to the county buying a huge old barn converting it into multiple living quarters, work spaces and stores, ect. Along with 27 acres along a river.
When it first became a possibility of me getting a double lung transplant he became a huge supporter and volunteered to at least take a turn as my caregiver. For his age, health, and mental acuity he is doing a marvelous job. Thanks Senior Robert Hosie :)

08/17/2025

My oxygen level is 95% without any supplemental oxygen. My leash has been eliminated :)

08/16/2025

I don't know who you were or why you passed, but you donated a beautiful pair of young lungs that I shall treasure as the most priceless gift they are. Thank you ❤️🫁💚

08/16/2025

I arrived at UCSF for a double lung transplant on Wednesday August 13th at 3:30 PM.
I went to the surgery room on Thursday August 14th at 3:30 AM.
I left the surgery room intubated at noon on Thursday the 14th, and I was extubated at noon on Friday the 15th.
Our Creator provides :)

04/08/2023

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04/08/2023

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My name is Robert Hosie. I am a 57-year-old man from Redding, California who is blessed with my childhood sweetheart as my wife and our two amazing teen children. I have end-stage COPD with a lung function of 17%. I have been greatly blessed with a second chance to get a double lung transplant from....