Yep, Most of my friends are a good 10 years older than I. I'm ok with that, and they know what is going on in my life. But being single now, and trying to meet women sucks. I dont want to bring it up in the first few dates, but they know I'm hloding somethign back. They aske why I'm coughting so much, things like that. So I tell them, what else can I do. I dont want to hide it, CF makes me who I am.
My first love understood, she would do anything for me. But that didnt work out which is ok. But finding another that is about the same age is hard. I recently went out on a date with a girl who is 29 and we started talking about helth care, and she asked what I had. I told her and she seemed ok with it. later on in the date she found out how old I was (I'm 22) and she just about fell off her chair. The date was over then. Odd, it was the age not the CF.
I think people with CF eather become well adjusted to their lives and can cope with this s h i t t y deaese. Or cant, and dont know how to cumunicate with others. not just people their same age, but everybody. We all have a hard time with people our age, but a few people understand us, and most of them tend to be older.
I do hate that "have another smoke" line. I usualy tell them I just hit the Crack pipe. It throws them off. But the worst is when you tell people that you have CF and they keep telling you to drink some tea, or have some Robitussin. The Robitussin line realy gets to me.
Just be a good person, and good people will come to you.
Colin Maydahl 22 with cf
