Branson's Eric Farris is enjoying something that many of us take for granted—the ability to breathe. Farris, a sales professional and well-known personality in Branson, was suffering from CTEPH, a rare lung disease caused by scar tissue that had formed in the arteries of lungs from two previous pulmonary embolisms. Farris' condition was life threatening, and he would have faced heart failure—and death—within the year without intervention. Farris learned of an extremely

After a series of tests and procedures at Cox Medical Center in Springfield and later at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St Louis, Farris has been diagnosed with a life-threatening condition called Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH).