Cystic Fibrosis

I really thought I'd have nothing to type here to today, but it turns out that stuff happened, so I think I will type something.

I reckon it'd be good if I started by typing about how Cystic Fibrosis is a genetically inherited condition, and the fact that I've got it.

Right, done that, good.

I think I'll follow that by explaining a little bit about it.

Alright then. CF is a condition that effects my lungs and my digestive system; the mucus and stuph in my lungs is thicker than in normal peoples lungs, so its harder for my lungs to get rid of, and that means I may cough or become breathless, or get a horrible infection in there, I do treatment every evening to combat this. Also I take tablets every time I eat a meal, because if I don't, my food goes straight through me, nothing vital is absorbed, I get terrible diarrhea and eventually if nothing is done about it I starve.

Just so that doctors and people know that I'm ok and not in any danger of dying or getting my lungs horribly infected (slight exaggeration, perhaps) I go to a clinic at the childrens hospital every couple of months.

I always go with my brother, which makes sense since he's got it too, and we went straight from school to meet up with our mum. Except we couldn't get to outpatients because of a fire alarm (no fire, maybe a drill?) and the place was evacuated and a security guard was standing outside not letting people in. So, since there was no sign of mum outside, we hung around assuming she was late. Eventually she appeared, apparently from inside the building after waiting for far too long. Turned out the outpatients hadn't been evacuated because the alarm that was meant to go off in outpatients didn't, and no one in outpatients could hear the main fire alarm. So yeah, mum wasn't too happy.

And after all that explanation of CF, all those paragraphs, all that build up really was just to tell you about a fire alarm.

I really am just typing for the sake of it.

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If you want to know all about Cystic Fibrosis, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystic_fibrosis

CF Trust UK http://www.cftrust.org.uk/

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