Cystic Fibrosis

Sep 19, 2019
4 min

Grief: A hard pill to swallow

Grief is very real. It’s exhausting, it’s sneaky, and it’s unpredictable. And it spans to all areas of loss – actual, perceived, or even...

Sep 4, 2019
2 min

Oh my memoir

Yesterday I finished a four-part memoir writing class. When I saw it was being offered, I thought, 'Well, now's not really a good time,'...

Aug 9, 2019
1 min

The gift of time

Look how fancy we get for other people's weddings and wear jeans to our own! I stumbled across this post the other day and realized I...

Jun 26, 2019
2 min

One of one

We’re 50 days into this cancer thing. It’s still somewhat surreal to type that, yet it’s also difficult to remember life before the...

Aug 5, 2017
2 min

The struggle has ended

After a 22-year battle with cystic fibrosis, my friend Darcey passed away on Wednesday, August 3. I first met her when I was an intern at...

Jul 27, 2017
3 min

Equality: Worth every penny

I have never considered myself a very political person. For as long as I can remember, I've always felt that politics were much bigger...

Jul 21, 2017
3 min

Walking the path

This photograph will be forever etched into my mind and my soul. The year was 1998, and I was at the annual cystic fibrosis camp, Camp...

My name is Drew Dotson, and my life has been anything but perfect, yet it's still perfectly beautiful. After growing up with a genetic disease, cystic fibrosis, I was blessed to meet an amazing man who loved me without bounds. Then he died.

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