With Friends Like Me
People with CF have to stay away from each other. We can catch different bacteria than normal people that are harmful to us and can spread them extremely easily to one another. It's one of the rules that seems the most simple but is probably the hardest to follow. When I was younger the rule didn't exist, I remember in my old hospital there was a "teen room" with a few sofas and a tv where the older patients could go to socialise with other patients if they didn't have visitors that day or wanted to make friends. I remember being little and wandering into the teen room to make friends with the big kids, there were siblings James and Ruby and they played with me for ages when I was bored and it was really nice having people like me around. One day a nurse stormed into the teen room and told us we couldn't be friends, we had to go back to our rooms immediately and couldn't mix anymore, the rules had changed and we could seriously hurt one another. Lit