It’s important to give myself grace when I feel exhausted

It’s important to give myself grace when I feel exhausted

Disrupting the rhythm of day-to-day life with pulmonary fibrosis comes at a cost. When I was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) in January 2017, my medications changed dramatically. I went from taking only Zyrtec (cetirizine hydrochloride) for seasonal allergies to requiring multiple meds that have been adjusted as needed over the past eight years. My pretransplant medications can be best described as a primer for what was to com…