By

Kathleen Walsh,

an evening blogger, writing about news, pop culture, and politics.

She is also a contributor to Vulture, and her writing has appeared in Glamour, Cosmopolitan, The Independent, InStyle, and more.

Muni Long, the two-time Grammy-winning R&B singer, just shared a harrowing story about her health on Good Morning America. Last fall, she had to undergo an emergency double lung transplant because otherwise, she said, doctors told her she had one week to live.