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Monnette Sudler: Daring To Dream

by Suzanne Cloud
October 8, 2013

She's not working. She's too sick. And it hurts to the bone that she can't play the way she used to because she has Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) lung disease and is waiting for a lung transplant. Nobody knows what causes this scarring and stiffening of the lung tissue, hence the idiopathic part of the name, but as the lung thickens, breathing becomes labored and more difficult--oxygen has a hard time finding its way into the bloodstream. All researchers know ...