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News 8's Marcella Lee Honored with CFF Community Champion Award
In honor of Mother’s Day, the San Diego Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation held its annual “65 Roses Ladies Luncheon” on Thursday, May 9, 2019.
The title “65 Roses” is in honor of a little boy, who years ago, thought that’s how his disease was pronounced.
Frank Buckley interviews: Diane Shader Smith, Author/Publicist
Frank Buckley interviews author and publicist Diane Shader Smith, who’s daughter, Mallory, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and authored the posthumously published book “Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life.”
A life remembered: Mallory Smith
Before Mallory Smith died age 25, she asked her mum Diane to publish her diaries, going back to her teens. When Diane looked through them after Mallory’s death she discovered a rich internal life that her daughter had recorded between hospital stays and periods of declining health.
Young Alumna and Writer
In her lifetime, Mallory Smith co-authored a book, advocated for protection of the Hawaiian Islands, and wrote about her experience living with a chronic, progressive lung disease.
Mallory Smith, ’14, died on November 15, 2017, from complications after receiving a double lung transplant at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She was 25.
ALUMNA’S LIFELONG BATTLE WITH ILLNESS INSPIRES COMMUNITY
The age of 25, for most people, is the beginning of life, not the end. But, as anyone will tell you, Mallory Smith, class of 2010, was not most people.
UMPC performs life-saving transplant after woman turned down across the country.
Mallory Smith, 24, suffers from cystic fibrosis and was in desperate need of a double lung transplant. She is from Los Angeles, but UCLA and Stanford turned her down.
More than 2,000 miles away at UPMC, Smith said doctors saved her life.