Summary
Mandy Kloppers has a lot to be proud of: she has survived a loveless childhood to become a published writer while battling with a progressive disease. But, in her eyes, her greatest achievement is learning to be a good mother to her five-year-old son Report Louette Harding Photographs Sarah Turton
At the beginning of her life, Mandy Kloppers was dealt a hand that was preposterously unfair. Sometimes, she admits, she allows herself a little bleat of self-pity before pulling herself together. 'You get what you are given.' She lives by a truism, 'Life is too short,' for the simple reason that she has cystic fibrosis and, at 33, she feels her clock is ticking. 'One by one my friends with CF are going; they're leaving, and I feel I have a time limit and I've got to work quickly,' is how she puts it.See the full content of this document
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My Daily Reminder to Live Life Now
She has written her memoirs, found a publisher and studied for a degree. She holds down two part-time jobs and is unusually for a CF sufferer, as the condition affects fertility the mother of a healthy and boisterous five-year-old son, Alex. 'Muu-m!' His voice carries from upstairs in their rented home in Woking, Surrey. 'Muu- m!' The imperious cry of the confident child.
Mandy wryly maintains that CF has always been the least of her problems. A loveless childhood was far...See the full content of this document
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