As we look forward to 2018, our President and CEO, Preston W. Campbell, III, M.D., shares a special holiday message to the cystic fibrosis community.
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Finding a Balance Between CF and High School
Protecting your children with CF, at all costs, sounds like a loving thing to do until you consider what it may cost them. To keep a balance between their health and healthy childhood development, my husband and I have learned that it takes a prudent approach with careful and creative decision making.
In a culture flooded with advertisements about the perfect body, secret weight-loss tricks and fad diets, our cultural ideals of weight are often skewed to an image that is far from healthy.
When I was 13, my family went from having two seemingly normal kids to two CF patients in a manner of a few short months -- and boy, did it change everything. Because of my late diagnosis, I faced a unique set of challenges that helped make me the strong person I am today.
After my transplant team said I was too sick to undergo a double-lung transplant, I was determined to get well enough so that I could.
There are many people in the cystic fibrosis community whom I believe possess hero-like qualities that I admire and who inspire me in my everyday life. I feel so fortunate for having crossed paths with them, and I very much look forward to meeting many more in this journey that I call life.
At a CF care center visit, I realized that I needed to step back so my daughter could step forward.
Exercise has been an important part of my life all my life. Here are some tips I have developed along the way.
Mary Duggan Lee Watson, a longtime coach, doesn't mind taking on adversity. When her granddaughter was diagnosed with CF, she decided to fight the disease doing what she loved: sports.