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Article: ROSEMARY QUIGLEY, WROTE OF LIVING WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 11, 2004
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Rosemary Quigley, 33, was a medical ethicist who wrote poignantly
about living with cystic fibrosis and undergoing a double lung
transplant. She died of double pneumonia Monday at Massachusetts
General Hospital, five months after the procedure.
Ms. Quigley was "remarkably spirited and inquisitive and engaged
in other people's lives," her cousin Mary T. Marshall of Boston said
yesterday.
A sprightly woman with reddish-brown hair, she was born with
cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that causes the body to produce
an abnormally thick, sticky mucus that clogs the lungs and leads to
life-threatening infections.
"As a child, I was always conscious of my mother lingering at the
bedroom door, ...