The Voice Of The Patient : Patient Journey With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: New Mountains To Climb (Paperback)

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a serious lung disease. When you breathe in, oxygen moves through tiny air sacs in your lungs and into your bloodstream. From there, it travels to your organs. IPF causes scar tissue to grow inside your lungs and makes it hard to breathe.

This book is the story of one man's experience with pulmonary fibrosis, from diagnosis to lung transplantation, and life afterward.

Here are the introductory comments from the author: "Imagine being told you have a disease you have never heard of, a disease with no known cause, for which there is no known effective medical treatment and no cure. Your future has been instantly shortened to three to five years. I want to share with you my journey with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)."

Physicians, others diagnosed with IPF, and their caregivers have endorsed it as an uplifting, hopeful, and forward-looking story.