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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lynn Rusk

Cystic fibrosis patient turns brush with death into Edinburgh Fringe show

Yvonne Hughes will perform her show, Absolutely Riddled, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer (Tommy Ga-Ken Wan/PA) -

A Scottish cystic fibrosis patient who wrote goodbye letters to her family before a revolutionary drug saved her life has turned her ordeal into an Edinburgh Fringe comedy show.

Yvonne Hughes, 51, from Clydebank in West Dunbartonshire, has lived with cystic fibrosis (CF) – a condition which causes sticky mucus to build up in the lungs and digestive system – her whole life after her diagnosis at just six weeks old.

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