Episode #0025 Alison Cain Podcast

Alison Cain Podcast


Title:
Allison Cain can finally breathe after transplant and no more “CF boot camp�


Jerry Cahill interviews Alison Cain who is 34 years old and had a double lung transplant at New York Presbyterian Hospital in NYC 1 ½ years ago due to progression of cystic fibrosis. Alison grew up in Connecticut and has returned to work teaching high school Spanish.

- Alison was diagnosed at 1 ½ years of age due to a “strange cough� and “failure to thrive�
- Alison attended Fordham University in New York.
- Sports kept Alison healthy for a long time prior to transplant: “I was a competitive swimmer from age 4 to 13 years of age. I also played soccer, softball, and ran cross country track�
- Alison was never hospitalized for cystic fibrosis until the age of 19.
- At age 28 Alison developed CF related diabetes.
- June 16, 2004 Alison had a double lung transplant that lasted 6 hours and was hospitalized for 10 days.
- Alison believes, after many years of battling CF, that a transplant is the only true cure for CF and that her life is so much happier now.
- Alison’s advice: “Be compliant to therapy/med.’s and don’t give up hope.