People struggle to believe how ill I am because I don’t look it, but the truth is that I do only have a certain amount of time left to live, we really need better understanding of cystic fibrosis and how to treat it. Channan Petrides More Quotes by Channan Petrides More Quotes From Channan Petrides I know I’ve taken a massive risk, but I want to enjoy the time I have left, rather than stick [sic] waiting to get a call that may never come, nobody could say for sure that the transplant would work, and I wouldn’t have been able to do anything on my bucket list because of risk of infection. Channan Petrides health Cystic fibrosis feels like having a plastic bag over your head and breathing through a straw, so a lot of patients who have transplants have to learn to breathe again because they aren’t used to taking in that much air. Channan Petrides health If it brought me another 20 years, of course I’d do it (the surgery). Channan Petrides health