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Monday Shoutout: Joyfully Breathing (belated once again)
Shoutout to Joyfully Breathing, A CFer’s Joyous Journey Through Life.
At eleven months old, and after many hospital stays, Joyfully Breathing was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Her doctor gave her a life expectancy of 18 years, if that. Her parents were told she would never be a “normal” child and she would never live a “normal” life.
What the doctor did not expect was for Joyfully Breathing to be a fighter every day, for the rest of her life. And so began her joyous journey as a CFer: never taking anything for granted, breathing even when it hurt, and loving every second of life.
Joyfully Breathing graduated with a bachelor’s degree in nutritional sciences and dietetics as well as a minor in restaurant, hotel and institutional management. Her dream job is to work with other cystic fibrosis patients as a registered dietitian nutritionist and help them gain weight so that they can live longer, healthier lives.
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Of course, l’histoire se répète. Doctors are no god’s, they can’t predict the future and certainly not a life expectancy. And most of all not in a so diverse illness like CF.
Joyfully Breathing is yet another shining example of this.
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