A Cheshire woman has spoken of her delight at present she has a chance to have children thanks to a 'miracle drug'.

Sarah Kay, 36, from Crewe, was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at the historic period of four, and has spent a decade believing she could not have a family of her own.

At the age of 12, she googled her life expectancy, and found out that she would probably dice before the historic period of 30, the Mirror reports.

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She was as well told that she should non get significant as she volition non be well enough to bear a child.

All the same, later more than three decades of infirmary visits and infections, a new drug has given Sarah and her husband renewed hope and allowed her to beginning trying for a babe.

Happily-married Sarah is now undergoing IVF thanks to a drug called Kaftrio, which was approved for us in the UK in June 2021.

She wants to encounter and thank the makers of the drug, scientists at pharmaceuticals company Vertex.

Sarah told the Mirror: "I only desire to exist able to tell them cheers and brand them understand what this ways.

"When I was 21 the topic of pregnancy came upward with my doctors.

"It was very much a case of don't go pregnant considering yous're not well enough to carry a baby.

"I thought I would never have kids and I started to forget that side of my life.

"I thought I was ok with information technology but in retrospect I wasn't because it's something I've e'er wanted.

"I all the same can't get my head around that information technology is a possibility for me now."

Sarah Kay

Sarah's dad died of the condition

Sarah met her now husband, Stephen, in 2016, just equally she suffered a total spontaneous pneumothorax where both of her lungs collapsed.

For years she had predictable this about death experience, after she had grown upward believing that the cystic fibrosis would kill her before she turned xxx.

She said: "I remember googling my life expectancy when I was about 12. At that time the average life expectancy for someone with cystic fibrosis was 27 years.

"All through my teenage years I rebelled because I just didn't intendance, I wanted to live my life and have fun because I thought I'd be expressionless past thirty."

But that attitude inverse for Sarah later on meeting the love of her life, and she became determined to beat the cystic fibrosis and live her life with Stephen to the full.

Sarah Kay

Sarah and Stephen on their wedding day

Trials for new drug Kaftrio were showing hugely promising results over in America later on scientists had created a treatment made up of three parts which helped the body to use the protein enzyme in the proper way to rid cells of this viscous mucus.

She said: "When I met my husband everything changed, I wanted to exist around for a long fourth dimension.

"I started to think about cystic fibrosis and how it could stop me from having a hereafter with him.

"I already knew he wanted children because we had been friends previously.

"I said to him if this is going to become somewhere I need to tell yous something.

"I told him 'I don't think I tin can have children and with my health the way information technology is I can't see that changing'."

Since starting on Kaftrio, Sarah has undergone 2 rounds of IVF but is also trying for a baby naturally.

She said: "I'm a big kid myself and then is Stephen. We love being around them and having our friends' kids around then information technology would mean everything to have 1 of our own.

Sarah Kay from Crewe after finding out about the new drug agreement

Sarah Kay from Crewe after finding out about the new drug agreement

"Considering of this drug and where my body is at information technology finally feels like a possibility.

"I don't feel like I have cystic fibrosis any more than, I can't call back the last time that I coughed.

"I simply can't wait to see Stephen's face when I can finally tell him that I'm meaning."

Following the NHS bid to secure Kaftrio for patients in the UK, health experts guess that nine in 10 people living with Cystic Fibrosis will benefit from this life-transforming drug.

NHS master executive Amanda Pritchard said: "Since NHS staff delivered one of the fastest rollouts of Kaftrio in the globe just over a twelvemonth ago, the lives of thousands of patients with cystic fibrosis have been transformed.

"Innovative treatments similar Kaftrio are life-changing for patients and their families, and that is why the NHS has washed all information technology can since we secured the deal for Kaftrio to ensure patients benefit as soon every bit possible."

Now Sarah is urging people to help her get the hashtag #SarahMeetsVertex trending in an endeavor to see her dreams become a reality.

Sarah said: "In some ways I feel and then lucky to have cystic fibrosis.

"When you lot are in the cystic fibrosis community you meet so many beautiful people with this condition and they inspire y'all in so many ways with their strength.

"I take lost incredible friends along the way.

"I want to thank these scientists who have made this wonderful treatment for all the people who volition come up after united states of america, who won't have to go through what we have been through."