I was going through my old notes I wrote on Facebook when I found this. I didn't make it up, but its copied and pasted. I found it hysterical.
You know you have CF when:
1. You know more medical terms by the age of ten than most people know their whole lives.
2. You have your pharmacist, family doctor, CF doctor, the emergency room that you always use and your medical insurance company as numbers 1-10 on your cell phone's speed dial.
3. You have come to the conclusion that your doctors are idiots most days and have the best working hours in the whole wide world—are they ever at work?
4. You have multiple scars from PICC lines, IV's and other 'experimentations' as the doctors like to call them.
5. You are so used to getting blood drawn that you are the proverbial 'test dummy' for all the new nurse fresh out of college—you don't mind do ya?!
6. You flip out when someone has an open cut, puts peroxide on it and then blows on the peroxide because it stings--- HELLO—germs are in your mouth too!!
7. You get equally annoyed when someone lays a towel on that open cut and states- but it's a clean towel—did you disinfect it? NO!
8. You have antibacterial gel in your purse, in your car, on the kitchen counter, in the bathroom, in your friend's dorm, their car— hell everywhere!
9. You can smell smoke hundreds of feet away and go searching for the source so you can thump them upside their retarded heads!
10. You quite adamantly think that smokers are some of the dumbest people you know—I always love it when they walk up a flight of stairs huffing and then say they NEED a cigarette! WHAT?!
11. You laugh at those who cry and moan from a common cold or worse yet stay home because of it!
12. You are truly sad for those cute little lab mice who must suffer from experimentations so we can have medicines to help us live— for about 1 milli-second than you jump for glee because they came up with something to help you breathe!
13. You can instruct the nurses how to work the IV machine at the hospital.
14. Some of the most memorable times with your friends include hanging out and wasting time at the hospital.
15. You have also learned who your real friends are because most people can't take the pressure of being around a person who has CF. (Sidenote: Not true at all.)
16. You make people wince on a daily basis because of the sound of your cough.
17. The checkout lady at Wal-Mart has confidently told you that she just got over what ever she had and Theraflu worked for her, which you calmly and sarcastically say—I will make sure to tell my doctors.
18. You can sleep through anything—you perfected the skill by being shaken by your vest all of these years.
19. You are a multitasker by need. While doing you're vest you MUST eat breakfast, do your nebulizers, homework, make-up, straighten your hair and have a conversation with your mother about your most current ache in your chest all at once or it would never get done.
20. You learn by the age of 15 that life is a gift and most people don't see it's pretty paper!
21. You have used you vest multiple times as a torment device for your dog by blowing air at him and watching him try to catch it in his mouth, entertainment device for the kids because a shaking vest is a fun 'toy' and a laughing tool for the adults when you try to talk to keep up with the conversation, even on the maximum setting.
22. Many adults have commented to you that you are very wise for your age.
23. You really did have a midlife crisis at the age of 18—what the hell do I do now, I wasn't suppose to make it this far!
24. If Albuterol and Xopenex were living things you would marry them because according to you they were sent from heaven to us CFers for a little help in the breathing department.
25. You laugh at your friends and their newest drama—haha! Don't we all wish it was THAT easy!
26. You get truly pissed at people who don't put yes as organ donors on their driver's license—what the hell are you going to do with them when you're dead, huh?!
27. You feel as if there is ALWAYS someone worse off than you somewhere.
28. You are constantly on the go, realizing that time stands still for no one.
29. You grew up thinking that everyone in your class does machines, nebulizers, inhalers, sprays and pills for an hour or two each morning before they came to school and an hour or two after.
30. You are more scared of losing your loved ones, family and friends then you are of dying your self.
31. You truly feel that you have this for a reason and, damn it, you're going to make people proud!
32. You realize at an extremely young age that you can buy everything but time and as a CFer, that is the one thing you would love to have!
Some of you will understand it all but most won't-- this is mostly for all the CFer's out there living and working each day to breathe.
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I see you haven't been here in awhile, we are 'friended' on fb. I think maybe through Meranda. I just wanted to say how much I LOVE this list and it's mostly true for me, 'cept the younger stuff. I was just diagnosed the Summer of '07! My Dr's were nit wits. I kept telling them my brother had this and died @ 7, they gave me the sweat chlorides but didn't pursue it after my "borderline" diagnosis. I am now 45 and still tickin'! P.S. Happy Anniversary to you and your BF. Hope you have a wonderful day! Thanks for the smile 2day. It's nice 2 see young ppl in love. I am going through a divorce as my husband of almost 14 yrs (together 18) decided this disease & all that comes with it was more than he wanted to deal with. Sucks but it is the reality of this, some ppl stick with you some; it's just 2 much for. I gotta say he did me a freakin' favor. He never was around anyways, now I can concentrate on me instead of worrying about making someone else happy! Ha ha, prob. tmi. Just wanted 2 make a point that it takes a special person to wanna stick around through it all; sounds like you found one. Again thanks for sharing this list! I love it.
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