Health is a relative state. For some it's a gift, for others it is a blessing, and for some it's a burdensome trial. Some people are very intentional about maintaining and promoting their health, while others are more passive as time and their health fade. It is certain that health and its failings do not play fair.
The gift of health, blessing of being healthy, and even the burden of illness do not reach people fairly or according to what they deserve. Sometimes the way you live your life is not reflected in the health you have, and also, the life you have is not always a reflection of your health. Throughout history there are accounts of people in poor health accomplishing great things, and of people in great health have living a poor life. What truly matters is what you do with the health you have.
Ashley and many others living with cystic fibrosis have been given a gift, a chance at health in the drug, Trikafta. All are deserving of this incredible new chance at health. But whether Trikafta brings a change in lung, GI, endocrine, and reproductive function it remains that you need to do, and live, and love, and excel and dream, and laugh, and grow, and dare, and be, and make the most of the chances at health and life that Trikafta potentially brings. Trikafta is just a drug (a really cool, awesome, life-changing drug), but what will it allow and inspire you to do? To be?
Those of us not living with CF, whether or not we have your own illness or ailment, we are not off the hook! Being healthy is privileged and a wonderful state of being, but it is just that (and only that) until we do something with it! We have the same charge – what will you do with the health you have?
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