The day-to-day dealings of life as a cystic fibrosis patient are described through a series of flashbacks to a time when the author was an 18-year-old volunteer at cystic fibrosis overnight camp. From diagnosis to death, this book leaves no aspect of CF untold as it includes a description of the illness, a comprehensive discussion of who gets the disease and why, an explanation of the procedures involved in diagnosing the disease, coverage of the arduous daily therapies involved in maintaining the life of a person with cystic fibrosis, and, now that people who have CF are living longer because of available therapies, the new challenges of dealing with CF-related diabetes as well as making decisions regarding lung transplants are all covered.