I had kind of always hoped but didn't know what to imagine or dream of or it felt maybe a little foolish sometimes to hope for some of these things.

Now I can think of those things and look forward to a future like with a reasonable expectation that that can happen.

So again, on my daughter growing old even or older, right?

I used to just hope and hope and hope that I would see her graduate from high school.

And now we talk about her going to college all the time. We talk about traveling together.

When she's older, we want to travel internationally. And that's so fun. It's fun to imagine

being a grandma maybe someday. I'm in grad school currently and pursuing my

master's degree in social work and to think of having a master's degree in social work and to think of having a career that I will love. I'm John Favro. I'm Max Fisher and you just heard from today's guest Jenny Livingston.

So Max this week you talked to Jenny about a new miracle treatment that has given a lot of

cystic fibrosis patients a chance to live decades longer than previously expected.

Jenny is one of those patients.

Why did you want to talk to her?

So until recently, most people with cystic fibrosis

lived about 35 years, but this new breakthrough has basically overnight pushed that to 85 years

which yeah is huge like a lot of people woke up and learn they've gotten five

decades back and that as you can imagine this is an incredible gift but also forces you to rethink

a lot and Jenny had already been blogging for years about cystic fibrosis and life within her blog

became this incredible chronicle of her reimagining her relationships and priorities

and what she wanted from life which are all that occurred to me like what we talk

about on the show to some extent I'll be in a very different context of like

taking time back from our phones and devices rather than from the horrible genetic disorder.

And Jenny kind of shared what she has learned from all this, which is a lot and what we should learn from it.

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