My wife recieved a transplant on December 10th and so we just recently went through the whole process, first they will do blood tests so they know what kind of donor that you will need, then you will have a class explaining the whole proceedure, plan on several radioloical tests such as chest xray, vq scan and heart tests ekg, echocardiogram, pft's and a six minute walk test for endurance. I dont know any thing about the hospital in houston, we had our transplant done in Pittsburgh because they average about 16 lung transplants a month and they also transplant people with cepacia. For fund raising we had a spaggeti dinner and an auction that we were able to raise $10,000 at. Try that and COTA but cota will take a while to set you up. Usually your Pft's need to be less than 30% my wifes pfts were 13% and they were still able to do the transplant.