Living with CF

If you want more information on how having CF affects your life then watch 'A Boy Called Alex' on Channel 4 on Thursday 24th Jan at 9pm. This is part of the excellent Cutting Edge series-

Alex Stobbs is a 17-year-old musical prodigy who has been playing the piano since he was three. His dream is to conduct Bach's great choral piece, The Magnificat, before an audience of 500 in the stunning 15th-century chapel of his school, Eton. This is an ambitious task for any teenager. But for Alex, the stakes are much higher. Alex has cystic fibrosis. He has a particularly virulent form of the disease. With each year that passes, his lungs are slowly giving up on him. Last year Alex had a close shave with death when a lung suddenly collapsed. A Boy Called Alex chronicles the 12 weeks in which Alex attempts to achieve his incredible goal.