Its promising, but then scary: 5-month-old girl to undergo double lung transplant [Video]

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) – An infant from Virginia is now in Texas to receive a gift that may save her life: a new pair of lungs.

Kylie suffers from a disease called Surfactant B Deficiency, which prevents her lungs from working properly.

The life expectancy of someone without a lung transplant is about three to five months.

Kylie just turned 5 months old on April 10. Her parents, Jakob Haddix and Ashley Overfield, left their home in Chesterfield, Virginia to move to Houston to give Kylie a chance at survival.

They brought their 1-year-old son with them, and after a brief stay with grandparents, their 9-year-old daughter also joined them in Texas.

Texas Children’s Hospital is one of a small number of pediatric hospitals in the country equipped to perform lung surgeries on babies and has the highest success rate.

Kylie is one of the oldest recorded living babies to have …