Well hello everyone: Im new to the site, I hate to tell you but my name is Jen too. Jen D. I am 46 and doing fairly well. No lung transplant in the future but got to hand to those on the list. I will pray for you.. I wish you all the best. Im wondering if anyone else is doing what I am doing. I don't meet anyone anymore with CF that I feel close enought to to ask this so I will ask some of you. I have recently in the last 5 year been isolating (Not a bad thing for me. ), so far, myself in the winter, no holidays with family, not Easter, Christmas< No kids. I am doing this cause I find I stay well so much longer. It keeps me from getting colds, and flu. It is harder on the family than it is me. Although it is still very hard for me. But it works. I didn't get sick last year until My husband went to his mom and Dads for Easter and brought a really bad cold home with him. Everyone there was sick. No one mentioned it to us. I don't blame anyone when we get sick but it is just consideration to another person to let them know if some one is sick. Especially knowing I have a lung disease. I find all kinds of things to do for the winter, I am in a book club over the phone with a friend of mine. I have read four books this way so far. , I have prayer with a friend once a month. I take walks, ( brief they may be ) arts and crafts, and I do Photography. So my winter is filled but every year I dread having to tell everyone, no! and especially my mom and brother who are always getting sick just before Christmas. imagine they are the hardest to deal with. Any way I don't know if anyone else is going to these extremes to stay well and live longer but it would be nice to know. I don't feel like it has interfered with the quality of my life , but it has changed my life, I am much more creative come winter and that is not such a bad thing. Let me know if anyone else is going through this and if not , why not.