Article: WOMAN BATTLES CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DARCY HILTON, OF PULASKI, NEEDS DOUBLE-LUNG TRANSPLANT TO SURVIVE.(Local)

Byline: Delen Goldberg Staff writer

Nancy Hilton is praying for a Christmas miracle: a savior for her daughter Darcy, 19.

Darcy Hilton, of Pulaski, suffers from cystic fibrosis, an incurable genetic disease that is ravaging her lungs, liver and pancreas.

The young woman has been sick since birth. But in the past year, Hilton's health has plummeted. Thick, sticky mucus is spreading throughout her lungs and body, slowly suffocating her. Without a lung transplant, she will die.

"I tell people all the time that she's going to be healed," Nancy Hilton said Saturday. "Either she'll be healed here, or if she's taken, she'll also be healed, ...

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