PF Stories

Jeff was diagnosed with COPD in 2020. He had worked construction in paper mills and oil refineries for 38 years.

I am a pulmonary fibrosis patient. I'm on oxygen 24/7.

I was 52 when diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis due to the COVID-19 virus destroying my lungs.

On 9/8/22, pulmonary fibrosis claimed the life of my 23-year-old son, Gavin, who had received a diagnosis in early 2020.

My name is Jose Armas, I'm a 64-year young Latino male to recently went through a bi-lateral lung transplant. I was diagnosed with IPF. At my worst, I was at a lung function of 42%. My last spirometry came in a 131%—WOW. 

I was in my mid 40's, a practicing primary care physician for both children and adults, a husband, and father of two - the prime of my life.

My father was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis on April 19, 2021.

I had IPF in 2017. I had to have lots of tests in 2018. I was then placed on the transplant list for 13 months.

I'm a 63-year-old male that was diagnosed with interstitial pulmonary fibrosis after a toxic inhalation accident and carbon monoxide poisoning ...

I was diagnosed with IPF in 2019 and have been wearing oxygen for a little over a year now.

I started coughing from what I thought was a virus in November 2011. It never went away.

I’m 89 years old and I developed a hacking cough when I was 88 years old, so I went on esbreit and had to stop because of side effects. ...

My Dad, Raymond Paul, was diagnosed with IPF in 2015.

Pulmonary Fibrosis has affected my everyday life for almost five years.

My mother died from pulmonary fibrosis in 2008. She was diagnosed and given five years but she lived eight.