A CHANCE MEETING WITH LIFE IBD

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If you, my reader, are drawn to stories about mountain peaks and tidal waves, wilderness and deep-down medical binds, this is such a story for my daughter and I, together, surrounded by others, found our way out and I am here to tell you how. As it begins&hellip,á&ldquo,This is a story about things that should not happen to a person but sometimes do and this time did.&rdquo,ááJacqueline Price was born withácystic fibrosisáand lived througháchildhood with memorable slumber parties, snow days, beach trips, and hospitalizations. áShe graduated on time from botháRobinson High SchooláandáRadford University,ámajoring ináFinance,áin spite of medical interruptions. áJackie was working for theáGerman grocery, Lidl, and living among friends in theáMosaic District,áa mixed-use community along theáD.C. Metro subway system.Then something terrible happened due to the cystic fibrosis. As it happens, her childhood hospital not far away,áFairfax Hospital, and specifically theiráHeart and Vascular Instituteáand more specifically the doctors and nurses within theáCardioVascular Intensive Care Unit, saved Jacqueline&rsquo,s life. Doctors and nurses and teams of teams, of specialists, remarkable people with the medical skills did remarkable things. ááI remained there from morning to night every day for weeksáfocused solely on the survival of our daughter, except I was able to write. áEvery day, I wrote about what I witnessed and what was going on in my mind. I wrote about our daughter&rsquo,s medical tidal wave and recovery.áYou may think I love our daughter the most because this story is about her, but my husband and Iáalso have a son we loveáimmeasurably. Down on the list yet close to the top, I love writing. I am a writer only in that I have a story to tell. By profession, I taught young children to read and taught older children who were in trouble, from elementary school to alternative high school. By profession and in my personal life, I have been a problem solver. I have not been a writer by profession. My personal life has made me a writer.áForgive my fragmented sentences, terms not well explained, the parts that may fumble along, as I fumbled along in this complex matrix. Stay with me. As a person who watches and thinks and makes sense of this world, I answer the question, &ldquo,What happened to Jackie?&rdquo, and give you a chance to witness through words my raw interpretation of being her mother.