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Podcast: Pre-Hospital Care Podcast
Episode: Training to Breathe: Paul Butler’s Fight Against Cystic Fibrosis
Description: Today’s episode dives into lived experience with cystic fibrosis through the remarkable journey of Paul  Butler. Diagnosed at two and warned he wouldn’t reach twenty. Paul’s childhood revolved around twice-daily chest physiotherapy, three-daily nebulisers, and a mass of hospital admissions for infections that chipped away at his fragile lungs. By his late teens, the odds felt fixed: average life expectancy for CF hovered around 30, and Paul’s lung capacity was already tumbling. Yet everything changed the day he cradled his newborn daughter, Amelia. Faced with a future he refused to miss, Paul overhauled his life, embr...