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Our journey through cystic fibrosis, a double lung transplant, and cancer.

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Posted on Friday, August 21, 2015

Another Life Moment: Catching a Cold After Lung Transplant

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I’m going to admit something to you… I’m scared right now. Each day is a blessing and you have to learn to take the good with the bad. I’ve almost been a widow 3 times. It starts off simple enough. A cold here. An ache there. Nothing big, just a small thing that has healthy […]

Bold Faith
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Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2012

2nd Chance at Life: The Life Quest

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Before an organ transplant, when you’re body is frail and you don’t know if you are going to live or die, your main goal is to stay alive long enough to get that transplant. Every moment it is about surviving long enough to witness the miracle of organ donation in your life and to come […]

Smile Enjoy Life
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Posted on Friday, August 5, 2011

Increased Coughing and the CF Smell

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When you’ve lived around someone with an illness as long as I have, you start to learn the subtle changes in that person that flag a small alarm in the back of your head. It can be a small change in behavior or the slight discoloration of skin. Sometimes it can even be a feeling […]

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Posted on Monday, May 9, 2011

Beware Change for the Sake of Change

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Do you ever find yourself desperately wanting a change in your life? This need for change can be as simple as rearranging the furniture in your house or as complex as moving to an entirely new country. Change is the only constant in life and change is good. Well, that is only if you aren’t […]

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Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2010

Feelings of an Organ Transplant Recipient’s Family

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The Angel Cove blog has set idle for quite some time, as I have been trying to decide what I should do with the blog or what people want to read. The thing is that as being a blogger you become so trained to think like your readers that you often forget the message that […]

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Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Caregiver’s Gift

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I was recently thinking about how far we have come through my husband’s Cystic Fibrosis (CF), his 9-month long stay on a ventilator to keep him alive and his miracle double lung transplant. You would think that my mind would wander from one traumatic time to another over those many years but my mind kept […]

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Posted on Monday, June 14, 2010

Stepping away from the 2010 Transplant Games

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It’s amazing how fast talk travels. Just yesterday, the Hubby and I were thinking about our future and which path in our life together we want to take. Over a few days time, we put down the final details on what in our lives would stay and what would need to go. There was too […]

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Hi, I'm Shannon, a sassy wife of 17 years to a beautiful, complex, challenging, and precious man who was born with Cystic Fibrosis, had a Double-Lung Transplant, and is a Stage 3 Lymphoma Cancer Survivor. Follow our transplant and life story as we tell our tale of healing, hope and the nearly futile attempt to hang onto our sanity. Welcome! To learn more, click here.

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