This post was originally posted on my Instagram on March 17th, 2016. @shannonjamesphotography / Instagram, 2016 If you were sat in one of these seats and a young person, maybe a teenager coming home from school, asks to sit down, would you get up if it looked as if there was nothing wrong with them? You said “No.” Am I wrong? Most people will say … Continue reading Invisible Illness
This post was originally written in May 2016 by Jessica Paddock. Jess, unfortunately, passed away in January this year. Jess had CF and this post is about organ donation. To join the organ donor register go to https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk//register-to-donate/register-your-details/ What a beautiful thing. I slowly opened my eyes to find myself in ICU, but unlike before I was no longer scared. Even though I had a breathing tube down … Continue reading A Beautiful Thing – In Memory of Jessica Paddock
Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic condition that affects over 10,000 people in Britain. People with CF have two faulty CF genes, one from each parent. If two people with one faulty CF gene each have a child then there is a 1 in 4 chance that the child will have CF, a 2 in 4 chance of a the child being a carrier (like their … Continue reading What Is Cystic Fibrosis?
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