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Book 2003

Breathing for a living

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Publisher
Hyperion
Language
English
Published
2003
  • Diaries
  • Patients
  • Health
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Lung Transplantation
  • Personal Narratives
  • Biography

A twenty-one-year-old woman with cystic fibrosis shares her decision to accept a lung transplant and muses on the challenges of her disease, the surgery, her recovery period, and the ongoing confrontation with her own mortality.