Health

To all who do or do not know my younger brother Darren and I have Cystic Fibrosis. Basically, it is a genetic disease which affects the respiratory and digestive systems. Everyone who has it is affected differently. Our biological parents had 4 kids, Aaron, me, Sherri and Darren. Aaron and Sherri are both married with all healthy children even though one of them is a carrier for the genetic disease. A carrier is someone who genetically contains the mutation but not any of the symptoms. Because CF is a recessive disease both parents need to be at least carriers to give the child the disease.
I was diagnosed at about 11 months of age and my parents had no idea what CF was let alone that they were carriers. Once I was diagnosed and began treatments I was relatively healthy. I have only been hospitalized about 3 times that I can remember. Darren however, has always been a lot worse. He got a double lung transplant about 2 weeks after we found out we were expecting a baby. His recovery is going amazingly well and my health though the pregnancy is very good also.