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Life Happens
I am sharing my story because we need to talk about IPF . At first after being diagnosed it was on my mind when I woke and around the clock. […]
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Honouring Linda (Clarke) Mcdonald
My sister Linda has IPF. Linda is a member of the Clarke family in Alberta and has been a huge support to the family during all of our struggles with […]
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My journey with IPF
In 2014, I had a cold but the cough wouldn’t go away. It kept getting worse until if I inhaled, I coughed. Dr could hardly examine me. I was sent […]
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Two Brothers
We had never heard of IPF (Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis later changed to Pulmonary Fibrosis Secondary to Sjogren’s Syndrome) until my husband David was diagnosed with it in 2013. We set […]
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Familial IPF
Our family has had more than our share of IPF. Mom was diagnosed with IPF in 2001 and passed away at home in March 2006. In October 2006 my Dad […]
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André Plouffe’s Pulmonary Fibrosis Journey
***UPDATE DEC 5, 2022: It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of André Plouffe on March 19, 2022. André was an inspiration to us all and we […]
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John Dennis’ Pulmonary Fibrosis Journey
“I’m relishing the fact that I can breathe,” declares John Dennis when he woke up after his single-lung transplant at Toronto General Hospital (TGH) in early March 2021. In this […]
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Jeannie Tom’s Pulmonary Fibrosis Journey
Jeannie Tom of Toronto, Ontario, lives with pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary fibrosis (PF) secondary to scleroderma, an auto-immune disease. When she retired from teaching in 2008, she too was quite […]
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Rob Garbutt’s Pulmonary Fibrosis Journey
Rob Garbutt of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada lived with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) for a remarkable 12 years, before receiving a lung transplant on July 21, 2022. This is his story […]
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Naomi Matsushita’s Pulmonary Fibrosis Journey
Naomi Matsushita of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, has interstitial pneumonia, one of the 200 types of pulmonary fibrosis (PF), as well as anti-synthetase syndrome, an auto-immune condition. This is her story. […]