Born with cystic fibrosis, he wasn’t expected to live long. Now 40, he’s fighting back

RALEIGH, N.C. — When he was about 14, Pete Proimos learned a soul-crushing statistic about the cystic fibrosis he’d endured since birth: Patients back then didn’t live much past high school.

“Should I go to college?” he asked his parents.

“Go be as normal as possible,” they replied, “for as long as possible.”…

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