Lindsay Shipp just wanted to keep her lungs.
When she was nine months old, Shipp was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis -- a genetic disease that, among other symptoms, causes thick mucus to form in the lungs. The life expectancy is 37, and most people who die from it succumb to a lung infection.
"I know it's kind of a morbid thought," she said, "but I was like, 'Alright, these are my singing lungs, these are my dancing lungs -- I want to keep them.' Full Read
When she was nine months old, Shipp was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis -- a genetic disease that, among other symptoms, causes thick mucus to form in the lungs. The life expectancy is 37, and most people who die from it succumb to a lung infection.
"I know it's kind of a morbid thought," she said, "but I was like, 'Alright, these are my singing lungs, these are my dancing lungs -- I want to keep them.' Full Read
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