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18.04.2022 - 06:49 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A desperately ill patient was planning her funeral before she was given a miracle drug.
Now she and her husband have a future with a baby son.
Gillian Docherty, 36, has battled cystic fibrosis all her life.
But four years ago, her lung function dropped to 38 per cent and, unable to climb stairs, she began to get her affairs in order.
Although Glasgow dentist Gillian kept active, her health declined and she made trips to the CF service at the QEUH.
She said: “Being aged 33 and not being able to climb up a flight of stairs is not a position anyone would want to be in.
“I couldn’t even go to the cinema. People would complain about my coughing. I was severely underweight, constantly exhausted and just existing.”
The average lifespan for a CF patient was 30 and Gillian believed she was on borrowed time and could not have kids.
She said: “I’d never have been well enough to sustain a pregnancy. I was fighting illness all the time and knew, even if we did have a child, it was very likely I wouldn’t be there to raise them.
“It was very much a personal decision which we had taken. We didn’t plan for a future as we wouldn’t have much of one.”
But after the QEUH secured a place for her on the trial for Kaftrio – a drug which the Daily Record successfully campaigned to have made available on the NHS – her life was transformed.
Within two weeks of taking the drug, which reverses the main symptoms of CF, Gillian, 36, saw her lung function rise from 38 to 74 per cent. Today, her lung function is over 80 per cent and continues to improve.
The recovery allowed her and husband Andy, 35, to have baby Frederick four months ago.
Before Kaftrio, Gillian was taking upwards of 70 pills daily and was regularly admitted to the QEUH to manage increasing
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