PF Stories
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Jane B. My name is Jane Berry. I am 78 years old and I have Ideopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. I was first diagnosed years ago with COPD.
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James M.
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Dianne H. Pulmonary Fibrosis has affected my everyday life for almost five years.
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Dawn M. Thank you for allowing me to share my story. My mother had suffered for years with difficulties breathing. She was told she had asthma, and then sarcodosis.
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Carolyn C. My son was recently diagnosed with Pulmonary Fibrosis. Apparently he has had it for about four years. He is 59 years old and appears to be the picture of health. His family and I were concerned about his cough and he saw a pulmonary doctor.
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Barbara M. I had never heard of IPF until I was diagnosed in 2003. The first thing I did was look it up online. What a scary and depressing future the Internet told me I was facing—3 to 5 years to live.
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Ashley G. My grandmother's name is Virginia and she was 75 years old and had been sick for awhile off and on. December 25th 2018, she fainted and we had her go to the hospital at this time she was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and they told us she ha
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Ann B. I had viral pneumonia when I was 8 years old, in 1955. I had it for probably 4 months. I got it from my mother who had been hospitalized with it before I was became ill.
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Alicia S. Pulmonary Fibrosis has been in my family on my mothers side for many, many years. Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF) has taken too many of my family members.
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Kolleen P. I was 52 when diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis due to the COVID-19 virus destroying my lungs.
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Robin J. I started my double lung transplant story in 2016.
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Brittany N. I am a pulmonary fibrosis patient. I'm on oxygen 24/7.
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Alicia G. On 9/8/22, pulmonary fibrosis claimed the life of my 23-year-old son, Gavin, who had received a diagnosis in early 2020.
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Jose A. 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.
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Eric W. 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.
