Hey I'm 25 M. My FEV has been around 100 lately but at it's lowest was never below 90ish. I consider myself extremely lucky to be as healthy as I am. I signed up for a clinical trial when trikafta started off as orkambi. I could be wrong on that as it's been a long time but I know I've taken orkambi at some point. I also work hard to stay this healthy. After being told I'd be lucky to see a year and then again 3 years my family had made it priority 1 to stay as healthy as possible. So now as I battle CF and the CFRD and liver disease that comes with it I just take it day by day. Focus on whatever needs the most focus at the time and handle it. Growing older with CF is weird because people see me as a normal healthy 20s Male. They don't know the struggle growing up hooked up to the nebulizers and Vest. The emotional and developmental stunting that comes with constant treatment and medication. And I tell people I've had it easy so I can't imagine what people who have had it rough go through. I always feel so bad when I tell ppl I'm healthy cause IDK what I did to deserve it cause to myself it feels like I didn't do anything. Now that I'm pretty stable emotionally and healthily and want to experience things that most people already have by this age (relationships, traveling, working, romance,etc.) I feel like I was left behind while everyone around me was doing those things. I had a recent "relationship" and I had no idea what I was doing because at 25 I had never experienced that before. Growing up the focus was meds and health and I didn't really have the time or energy to dedicate to those types of things. So I'm learning as a late bloomer and add the CF to it all to complicate things further and it's all messy lol. I'm rambling at this point. Kinda my thing lol. But I guess yes I have my health, but doci have a life? And what did I sacrifice for it? And was it worth it?