Tiffany Senter won't let cystic fibrosis and multiple lung transplants stand in the way of her dream
A woman who has cystic fibrosis and has had two double lung transplants by the age of 25 is not letting her condition from living her life to the full.
Twenty five-year-old Tiffany Senter was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when she was only 7 days old. Cystic fibrosis is a chronic genetic disease that causes sticky fluid to build up in the organs including the pancreas, liver, kidneys, and intestine. The most devastating effects of the disease, however, are felt in the lungs which ends up drowning in mucus.
The Daily Mail reported that Tiffany found out she was dying when she was only 16 years old. She had her first lung transplant at age 17, which saved her life, but only four years later, her body rejected the new lungs. Tiffany was able to get another chance when she received a second pair of donor lungs when she was 23.
It seems to be working for the time being but she still needs to spend a lot of time at the hospital.