Yesterday I turned 35 years old! Most women don’t like to celebrate their birthdays, or at least the getting older part. I, on the other hand, love celebrating getting another year older. Getting older when you have CF is a blessing because so many with CF don’t get the privilege of getting older. Statistics aren’t everything because if they were I wouldn’t be here. When I was born, the “life expectancy” was 12. Obviously I have surpassed that. The age of “life expectancy” keeps moving up which is great! I put “life expectancy” in quotes because I don’t live by those restrictions. I have lost friends of all ages so that number really means nothing to me. (more…)
CF Happens
Sometimes in life CF (Cystic Fibrosis) happens…pun intended
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Where to start…..I finished the oral Cipro and prednisone on Friday the 23rd. Still wasn’t feeling great, although the prednisone helped a ton by opening up my reactive airways making me not so tight chested and wheezy. Tuesday, the 27th, I started with noticeable lung pain in the upper right lung. It hurt to cough, good luck not doing that one, and made the vest uncomfortable to use during treatment times but I powered through it because I have to get that junk out. The lung pain continued yesterday and today. I called my clinic to ask for a chest x-ray to make sure there wasn’t anything blatantly obvious on it as to a reason for the pain, like a major infiltrate (junk/blood stuck in there), infection, pneumonia, collapsed lung (partial, considering I was still able to breathe decently) or fractured ribs. I figured it was just do to the raging pseudomonas infection I have going on at the moment. (more…)
CF Happens 