We sat in pristine sands shadowed by titanic sentries dubbed The Twelve Apostles. At the southern end…
Brad Dell
Brad Dell is Deaf and was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at 2 months old in 1993. He received a double-lung transplant from UC San Francisco in January 2017, then cochlear implants nine months later. He lives in Hawaii, where he was raised. Usually he’s traveling the world, chugging coffee, or devouring books. He also pastors Restoration Community Church and serves as the director of community content at BioNews, this site’s publisher.
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Articles by Brad Dell
Imagine how much easier cystic fibrosis (CF) would be if we didn’t have fears. What if we…
I gaze through a frosted window on a mountaintop near Lake Tahoe. It’s a church youth group retreat.
Editor’s note: This column discusses suicide. Sometimes, the day is raw, a knife grinding round and round and round in…
A running joke among my friends is that “Brad hates kids.” Maybe I did. I could blame…
I have a story for you. In my teens, I often ditched CF treatments to explore storm…
On the night of Jan. 15, 2016, nurses rolled me in for surgery. I rolled out…
A friend sat with me above heaven, a sapphire ocean embracing two lush islands and the…
The Toon Trauma Triggers
It’s the happiest place in the world. Disneyland. I am afraid. Trembling, I slip deep down into the…
I parked outside a library, where I’d planned to work for the day, at 7 a.m. in freezing…