Article: The challenge of cystic fibrosis and learning to live with it.

By Jonathan Bor Two hours a day, Jeff Davis works at staying alive. He inhales a succession of medications, runs on a treadmill and sometimes performs breathing exercises that produce gurgly, crackling sounds.It's tedious work, crammed into a life that includes a full-time job as a machinist and leisure time with his wife and two young children. But it has paid dividends: A generation ago, few people with cystic fibrosis lived past their teens--Davis is 35.Davis is fairly typical, having soldiered through childhood with a closet full of medications and parents who spent untold hours thumping his torso to keep his lungs clear."They told my parents that if I lived to be a ...

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