Hey Michael! So glad to have you on the forums. I am Luisa and I also have CF, and I am one of the moderators here at CF News Today. I think it’s so AWESOME that you had your transplant in 2005. How are you doing today?
Hi Louisa. I’m doing well, living, writing and photographing in Asheville. Since my transplant I’ve managed to publish three new books and am now working on a memoir or sorts about my family’s long struggle with CF. My case was “late onset” but I lost four siblings along the way.
Oh my gosh, that’s so cool. Are your books available to order on Amazon. And, I can’t imagine what it is like to lose four siblings. CF is brutal, especially when the medications and therapies haven’t been there. Also — I will be in North Carolina next month, but I am going to Charolette!
I think all of my books are available through Amazon, though I haven’t looked recently.
When we were all growing up there wasn’t much talk about CF in the family, and about the only treatments available were antibiotics and back-slapping percussion. Terrible for our parents who had all those babies after WWII only to find out that the first five of them all had CF. I mostly pretended I didn’t have it.
May you remind me of the name of your books, and I’ll be sure to look them up. And, jeez — post WWII was such an apocalyptic space for the world, toppled with the news of CF… I can imagine you took on that identity to not want to have CF.
The three books published since my transplant are :Bain’s New York. The City in News Pictures, 1900-1925; Sunny Land. Pictures from Paradise; and Some of Us. (The last two are collections of my photographs. You can see some of my pictures on my website: michaelcarlebach.com
When we were all growing up there wasn’t much talk about CF in the family, and about the only treatments available were antibiotics and back-slapping percussion. Terrible for our parents who had all those babies after WWII only to find out that the first five of them all had CF. I mostly pretended I didn’t have it.