Living with cystic fibrosis: My life expectancy is 31. I'm 29. So that's two years of parties, extreme sports and romance.
You'd hardly know I was ill if you were to look at me. I go out with my friends, have a *****, travel, work, all the things everyone else does.
But at the back of my mind there is always a number - the average life expectancy for someone with my disease. That number is 31. I am 29.
I have cystic fibrosis. It's an incurable, genetic disease, where sufferers have thick mucus clogging their lungs.
Because of scarring from infection, a sufferer will either slowly ********* - leaving their lungs unable to supply enough oxygen to the body - or their immune system loses the battle against infections.
