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LA Times

She Read Her Daughter’s Journals, Then Published Them After Her Death

Riley’s Children Hospital, June 06, 2019

Diane Shader Smith Releases Salt In My Soul

Arroe Collins, May 17, 2019

‘Salt in My Soul,’ Mallory Smith Says What All of Us Are Thinking

Gunnar Esiason, April 24, 2019

Salt in My Soul is a powerful, heartbreaking and inspiring look at Mallory Smith’s life.

Deborah Kobylt LIVE: Diane Shader Smith – Writer, Publicist, and Cystic Fibrosis Advocate

Deborah Zara Kobylt, June 26, 2019

Salt in My Soul is a powerful, heartbreaking and inspiring look at Mallory Smith’s life.

LA Times

Cystic Fibrosis Took Her Life. In Her Writing, She Left An Extraordinary Gift

Forward, April 24, 2019

Mallory Smith’s memoir “Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life” may prove the most difficult book you’ll ever read.

Because you know the ending.

Mallory Smith Died Of Cystic Fibrosis Complications, But Her Mom Is Making Sure Her Story Is Told

Bustle, March 12, 2019

“Cystic fibrosis is a disease that does a lot of taking — of dreams, of time, of travel, of friendships, of freedom, of potential, of plans, of lives,” Mallory Smith wrote in the introduction to her journals.

Turning Tragedy into Triumph with Mark Smith

CF Mom Tribe, April 11, 2019

Salt in My Soul at LMU

CURes Blog, April 22, 2019

“She wanted to work in environmental education but the field work she would be doing was too risky for her health, her doctors told her not to” said Diane Shader Smith, mother of Mallory Smith, during an emotional and groundbreaking talk in the LSB Auditorium on April 8, 2019.

Now Reading: April 2019

Literary Mama, April 26, 2019

If, like me, you have an app on your cell phone in which you list the titles of books you want to read, open it up! I think you’re going to want to add one or more of this month’s Literary Mama staff reading recommendations to it.

People Making A Difference: Mallory Smith’s Legacy

CBS Los Angeles, March 01, 2019

Mother to Present Daughter’s Posthumous Memoir ‘Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life’

Village Green NJ, April 10, 2019

LA Times

Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life Interview

Nurse Talk, April 04, 2019

Looking At Invisible Illnesses

CBS Local, March 23, 20199

Beverly Hills Community Embraces Mallory Smith’s Legacy At Book Launch

Beverly Hills Courier, March 23, 2019

Diane Shader Smith Speaks About “Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life”

XRAY in the Morning, March 11, 2019

Soul Sisters: My Reflections on Mallory Smith’s Memoir

Cystic Fibrosis News Today, June 26, 2019

A truth binds the lives of two women who have never met. One sees into the other’s soul through her writing — for both women, cystic fibrosis (CF) has been their greatest blessing and most dreadful curse.

A life remembered: Mallory Smith

Cystic Fibrosis Trust, March 12, 2019

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.

SALT IN MY SOUL: AN UNFINISHED LIFE by Mallory Smith

Common Reads, March 12, 2019

Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life (Spiegel & Grau; ISBN: 978-1-9848-5542-8) collects diary entries of Mallory Smith—a remarkable young woman who was determined to live a meaningful and happy life despite her struggle with cystic fibrosis and a rare superbug—from age fifteen to her death at the age of twenty-five.

Mallory Smith’s Voice Shines Through In ‘Salt In My Soul’

Beverly Hills Courier, January 25, 2019

Superbugs Are Nearly Impossible to Fight. This Last-Resort Medical Treatment Offers Hope

TIME Magazine, December 18, 2017

Facing mortality: a young woman’s lifelong battle with illness

LA Times, December 13, 2017

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.

Young Alumna and Writer

Stanford Magazine, March 03, 2018

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

Beverly Highlights, December 04, 2017

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.

A patient’s legacy: Researchers work to make phage therapy less of a long shot

STAT News, November 28, 2017

he researcher couldn’t get Mallory Smith’s story out of her mind. Smith was a 25-year-old cystic fibrosis patient, and she was near death at a Pittsburgh hospital, her lungs overwhelmed by bacteria. All antibiotics had failed. As a last resort, her father suggested an experimental treatment known as phage therapy.

Beverly High Graduate, Cystic Fibrosis Advocate Mallory Smith Dies At 25

Beverly Hills Courier, November 16, 2017

Reconciliation Ecology

Pacific Horticulture, August 15, 2017

To save a young woman besieged by superbugs, scientists hunt a killer virus

PBS, November 12, 2017

The word from the doctors came early this week: They had tried one cocktail of antibiotics after another, but Mallory Smith’s fever and chill and chest rattle were only getting worse. They were out of options.

Why Lung Transplant Patients Rejected by Other Hospitals Seek UPMC

Beckers Hospital Review, October 26, 2017

To save a young woman besieged by superbugs, scientists hunt a killer virus

STAT News, November 10, 2017

he word from the doctors came early this week: They had tried one cocktail of antibiotics after another, but Mallory Smith’s fever and chill and chest rattle were only getting worse. They were out of options.

Woman Repeatedly Rejected For Lung Transplant Undergoes Successful Surgery At UPMC Hospital..

Pittsburgh CBS Local, October 09, 2017

A woman who had been turned down over and over again for a lung transplant finally got one right here in Pittsburgh.

Mallory Smith is getting ready to celebrate her 25th birthday, which is just three days away. That might not sound extraordinary, but it is. Smith believes doctors here in Pittsburgh saved her life.

Why Would A Hospital Turn Away A Transplant Patient? To Keep Its Numbers Up

WESA.fm, September 29, 2017

Mallory Smith rolls her IV medication pole as she walks through the hallway at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital to get some exercise following major surgery.

“I’m taking like six IV medications throughout the day. So they all come through on these different pumps,” Smith said.

UPMC Performs Life-Saving Transplant After Woman Turned Down Across the Country

Pittsburgh Action 4 News, October 09, 2017

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.

CF Patient, Recovering from Double Transplant, Inspires ‘Lunges4Lungs’ Fundraiser

Cystic Fibrosis News Today, September 20, 20177

The lunges keep coming for Lunges4Lungs, even as Mallory Smith recovers from the double lung transplant she has received to help extend her life.

Friends of Smith started the transplant fundraising campaign, which involves people making donations for each of the leg-muscle exercises known as lunges that they perform. Although doctors have performed her transplant, the lunges for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation‘s new transplant initiative continue.

Patient waiting for transplant launches ‘Lunges4Lungs’ challenge

Fox News, September 17, 2017

The stress of waiting for a lung transplant sparked a 24-year-old patient’s desire to raise awareness for a complicated disease.

Mallory Smith, who has cystic fibrosis and is on the waiting list for a pair of lungs, started the ‘Lunges4Lungs’ campaign along with her friends.

Beverly Hills High Graduate Mallory Smith Receives Double Lung Transplant

Beverly Hills Courier, September 14, 2017

Woman creates Lunges4Lungs to raise money for transplant research

TODAY, August 23, 2017

Proud to be from Pittsburgh: Lunges for Lungs

WXPI.com, August 07, 2017

Battling cystic fibrosis is tough. But Mallory Smith is determined to live happy.

BH Weekly, August 04, 2016

In the Spotlight: Mallory Smith

CFF.org, August 15, 2013

BHHS Grad Won’t Let Illness Keep Her from Stanford

Patch.com, September 01, 2010

When Beverly Hills resident Mallory Smith first received her acceptance letter to Stanford University, she could not contain her excitement about the opportunities awaiting her.

Countdown to Graduation: Mallory Smith/h3>

Patch.com, June 10, 2010

When Beverly Hills resident Mallory Smith first received her acceptance letter to Stanford University, she could not contain her excitement about the opportunities awaiting her.

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