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I leave salt deposits on my shirts on really hot summer days, and after exercising my BF often says I taste like a french fry. So yeah, I think being salty is a pretty common issue for CFers, even to the point of visible or uncomfortable salt deposits on our skin. It's not anything to worry...

I leave salt deposits on my shirts on really hot summer days, and after exercising my BF often says I taste like a french fry. So yeah, I think being salty is a pretty common issue for CFers, even to the point of visible or uncomfortable salt deposits on our skin. It's not anything to worry...

I leave salt deposits on my shirts on really hot summer days, and after exercising my BF often says I taste like a french fry. So yeah, I think being salty is a pretty common issue for CFers, even to the point of visible or uncomfortable salt deposits on our skin. It's not anything to worry...

I leave salt deposits on my shirts on really hot summer days, and after exercising my BF often says I taste like a french fry. So yeah, I think being salty is a pretty common issue for CFers, even to the point of visible or uncomfortable salt deposits on our skin. It's not anything to worry...

I leave salt deposits on my shirts on really hot summer days, and after exercising my BF often says I taste like a french fry. So yeah, I think being salty is a pretty common issue for CFers, even to the point of visible or uncomfortable salt deposits on our skin. It's not anything to worry...

Amen. I've been fighting yet another infection for the past three weeks, fevers so high I've almost had to go to the ER on multiple occasions, short of breath, O2 all the time, the whole nine yards. And I looked at my sister the other day and said (through my feverish haze) "I just want to be...

Amen. I've been fighting yet another infection for the past three weeks, fevers so high I've almost had to go to the ER on multiple occasions, short of breath, O2 all the time, the whole nine yards. And I looked at my sister the other day and said (through my feverish haze) "I just want to be...

Amen. I've been fighting yet another infection for the past three weeks, fevers so high I've almost had to go to the ER on multiple occasions, short of breath, O2 all the time, the whole nine yards. And I looked at my sister the other day and said (through my feverish haze) "I just want to be...

Amen. I've been fighting yet another infection for the past three weeks, fevers so high I've almost had to go to the ER on multiple occasions, short of breath, O2 all the time, the whole nine yards. And I looked at my sister the other day and said (through my feverish haze) "I just want to be...

Amen. I've been fighting yet another infection for the past three weeks, fevers so high I've almost had to go to the ER on multiple occasions, short of breath, O2 all the time, the whole nine yards. And I looked at my sister the other day and said (through my feverish haze) "I just want to be...

38 is by no means "too old" -- by standards outside the CF community it would still be considered "young" for a lung transplant. Most of the non-CFers on the list are older, like 50s or even older, b/c COPD tends to develop later in life. At my center I believe the cut off age is 65, and I think...

38 is by no means "too old" -- by standards outside the CF community it would still be considered "young" for a lung transplant. Most of the non-CFers on the list are older, like 50s or even older, b/c COPD tends to develop later in life. At my center I believe the cut off age is 65, and I think...

38 is by no means "too old" -- by standards outside the CF community it would still be considered "young" for a lung transplant. Most of the non-CFers on the list are older, like 50s or even older, b/c COPD tends to develop later in life. At my center I believe the cut off age is 65, and I think...

38 is by no means "too old" -- by standards outside the CF community it would still be considered "young" for a lung transplant. Most of the non-CFers on the list are older, like 50s or even older, b/c COPD tends to develop later in life. At my center I believe the cut off age is 65, and I think...

38 is by no means "too old" -- by standards outside the CF community it would still be considered "young" for a lung transplant. Most of the non-CFers on the list are older, like 50s or even older, b/c COPD tends to develop later in life. At my center I believe the cut off age is 65, and I think...

You don''t have to be listed for transplant, but your FEV1 has to be 50% or below.

You don''t have to be listed for transplant, but your FEV1 has to be 50% or below.

You don''t have to be listed for transplant, but your FEV1 has to be 50% or below.

You don''t have to be listed for transplant, but your FEV1 has to be 50% or below.

You don''t have to be listed for transplant, but your FEV1 has to be 50% or below.