This journal is mostly public because most of it contains poetry, quotations, pictures, jokes, videos, and news (medical and otherwise). If you like what you see, you are welcome to drop by, anytime. I update frequently.
The former beauty queen stared into the camera, but this was no pageant or performance. She looked frail and thin, and her hair was rumpled. But Eva Markvoort smiled weakly.
65_RedRoses is a Canadian documentary that takes an unflinching look into the life of Eva Markvoort as she battles a fatal genetic disease called Cystic Fibrosis (CF).
Eva Markvoort was a little kid when she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, and she couldn’t pronounce it properly. But she could handle the close approximation “65 roses” — and so that’s what she called it for years. In her early 20s, Markvoort was eager to interact with other CF patients online. She combined her childhood ...
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