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Fitness & Health

18th Jan 2017

Woman with just one week to live shares emotional request in heartbreaking message

Alan Loughnane

This is so sad…

A woman from Australia who has been told by doctors she has just one week to live is using her time to promote the importance of organ donation.

25-year-old Nardya Miller, who has Cystic Fibrosis, was told last Wednesday that she has just one week to live after her body rejected a double lung transplant she had two years ago.

Speaking to Sunshine Coast Daily, Nardya’s fiancé Liam Fitzgerald revealed that it’s the chronic rejection she was diagnosed with three months ago that is killing her.

“CF was a part of her life for 23 years and got her to needing a bilateral lung transplant but after the first 11 months post surgery, being so perfect, the lungs started to fail, over and over again requiring treatments she never thought she would have to go though.

“She went through rounds of plasmapheresis to try stop donor specific antibodies but nothing worked.”

Nardya, a beauty salon owner, was placed in palliative care on Sunday and now has mere hours to live.

She wrote in an Instagram post last week: “Maybe I’ve known you my whole life, maybe I’ve known you for 10 years, maybe I’ve known you for only a short while, but in just over a week I will never know you again, I will never see your face again, I will never talk to you, touch you, hold you, ever again.

“But I will always love you, and the friendships we built, and the memories we made.

“Things do not always turn out how you plan in life, there are some really huge things that I will never have, places I’ll never go and things I’ll never live to see. But I’ll be watching. Always. Smiling. Because I was here.

“I will never give up. As I never have. Now I’m just simply letting go.”

Her final emotional line of the post was a request to others.

“And please I beg you to live your life to the absolute fullest. -N x.”

According to Cystic Fibrosis Ireland, CF is an inherited chronic disease that primarily affects the lungs and digestive system of about 1200 children and adults in the Ireland (70,000 worldwide).

A defective gene and its protein product cause the body to produce unusually thick, sticky mucus that: clogs the lungs and leads to life-threatening lung infections; and obstructs the pancreas and stops natural enzymes from helping the body break down and absorb food.

Nardya’s cousin has also started a GoFundMe account to help with one of Nardya’s last wishes, that her fiancé wouldn’t be left in crippling debt.