When my husband and I decided to move to a small farm, we imagined early mornings feeding chickens, tending the garden together, and watching cattle graze in the distance. It wasn’t simply a place to live. It was the life we had dreamed of building. No one imagines that one day their own body will…
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I’m home, at last, after a 17-day hospital stay where I was treated for shingles. Oddly enough, after it was determined by my care team that I was a viable candidate for a lung transplant following my diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) in January 2017, I was…
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The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF), an advocacy group dedicated to advancing care for people with pulmonary fibrosis, has added two new members to its board of directors. Both new board members are physicians with extensive experience caring for people with pulmonary fibrosis, which causes scarring in the lungs,…
Becoming educated and informed about PF is a good first step. Here you’ll find general information about the disease, including diagnosis, symptoms, and causes.
It helps to know others have been where you are now. Here’s a collection of our columnists’ words of wisdom to help you along on your PF journey.
There is no cure for PF yet, but here you can find more information about current therapeutic approaches, as well as experimental treatments that are in the pipeline.
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