Author(s): Melanie Ann Apel
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 276
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Language: English
Date Published: 2006-04-30
Dimensions: 180.34 x 256.54 x 25.4mm
Publication City/Country: Lanham, MD, United States
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Illustrations: 1, black & white illustrations

The day-to-day dealings of life as a cystic fibrosis patient are described through a series of flashbacks to a time when the author was an 18-year-old volunteer at cystic fibrosis overnight camp. From diagnosis to death, this book leaves no aspect of CF untold as it includes a description of the illness; a comprehensive discussion of who gets the disease and why; an explanation of the procedures involved in diagnosing the disease; coverage of the arduous daily therapies involved in maintaining the life of a person with cystic fibrosis; and, now that people who have CF are living longer because of available therapies, the new challenges of dealing with CF-related diabetes as well as making decisions regarding lung transplants are all covered.