Intro: Cat Speedpaint and How to Make a Speedpaint. Hello everyone! Here is my first speedpaint! A while back, I downloaded Hypercam 2 to start recording some of my digital paintings and drawings, and well, this is ...
John Sackett, current President of Avista - Porter Care Hospital in Louisville, Colorado is the oldest known living person with Cystic Fibrosis - &nbsp;an&nbsp;autosomal&nbsp;recessive&nbsp;genetic disorder&nbsp;that affects most critically thelungs, and also the&nbsp;pancreas,&nbsp;liver, and&nbsp;intestine.
In fact, as recently as the 1960s, most children with cystic fibrosis did not live past preschool age [source: Cystic Fibrosis Canada ]. Moreover, not so long ago in the 1980s, people with cystic fibrosis had an average life expectancy of 14 years.The life expectancy of people with cystic fibrosis has drastically improved over the last three decades.ome statistics, however, report a much more conservative life expectancy estimate of 35 years [source: Disabled World ]. The future seems even brighter for cystic fibrosis patients. The forecasted life expectancy of babies born today is 40 years old [source: Disabled World ].