CF is not only a disease that affects the physical body but also affects your mental/emotional state. Many people with CF have depression and/or anxiety or other mental health issues. It is a hard fight mentally as well. I have not been shy with my depression diagnosis. It hasn’t always been peaches and cream. It is a fight. I have clinical depression. There others that have situational depression meaning that depression takes over when they get sick with a CF exacerbation or other CF related health situation. There is no shame in having Depression but there is a lot of stigma that comes with it.
CF Happens
Sometimes in life CF (Cystic Fibrosis) happens…pun intended
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The gut (belly/bowel/intestines) are greatly affected by CF. There are a lot of issues that can come up. Like I have said before, not all CFers have the same symptoms and problems, nor do they have them at the same rate/severity. I am going to add some pictures to help describe all of these gut related this. The pictures will help describe some of the different aspects of these areas that are affected. I have included information about feeding tubes because maintaining weight is something many pancreatic insufficient CFers deal with. We have to keep the weight on so that we can fight infections. (more…)
CF Happens 