The wife of a lung transplant recipient who died in May says her family's attempt to save her husband's life has cost her their family home in Springhill, N.S.

Donald Goguen, a Canadian navy veteran, died in May of complications from two lung transplants last year.

Not only is Verbena Brenton-Goguen grieving her husband, but she's grappling with the financial fallout of living in Toronto for 15 months while he received treatment.

"I can't afford to live here," she said of their house in Cumberland…