Fiona Hinton, a 42-year-old mother from England, was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis and given a life expectancy of two years without a lung transplant. She is determined to make lasting memories with her family, especially her two-year-old son, Harry, who gives her hope.
A mother with a terminal lung condition fears her two-year-old son may not remember her, as she worries this Christmas may be her last. Fiona Hinton, 42, from Poynton, Cheshire, was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable illness which progressively scars the lungs and worsens breathing, in 2019. In a devastating blow, she was told in October 2023 that she may have just two years to live without a lung transplant.
She now fears for her son Harry being too young to have memories of her, but is firmly focused on making lasting memories with her loved ones this Christmas. Fiona, a global data ingress manager, experienced symptoms including breathlessness and a dry cough for two years before her diagnosis. As she was becoming breathless after minimal activity, she was originally concerned about being 'really unfit', but her condition did not change despite exercising more to improve her fitness. She also began experiencing lightheadedness and extreme fatigue before being diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 37, which the NHS says is rare in people under the age of 50. Although doctors cannot determine a cause for her condition, they have confirmed it is not genetic. She said: 'It is a case of bad luck. “I remember getting out of the hospital, my mum and dad had waited for me, and I just cried and cried in the car, and I was like, ‘I don’t understand, I’m 37 and I’m dying’. It was a lot to process. Having to face your own mortality is its own special experience, particularly when you’re younger. It felt like I was losing the opportunity to live essentially, it was a tough pill to swallow.” A beacon of hope has been two-year-old Harry, who Fiona said has given her 'a reason to live' and made her 'fight harder' to be around for as long as possible. Between 2017 and 2021, Fiona and her husband Alan, 42, underwent IVF using Alan's frozen sperm after he had stage four cancer in his twenties, from which he has since made a recovery
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