best friend of over a decade is declining...

Hi all. I guess this is the kind of place to talk to people about this. Even a month ago I would never have thought about looking for resources like this forum. My very closest friend of the last decade, who I consider a sibling, has CF. She is 100% my family and I love her dearly. We met in 5th grade and I'm now a junior in college. Even though my college is two hours away we text pretty much every day. Every one at my university knows who she is.(L) She, however, has stalled out at home and stopped doing her treatments. Throughout our friendship she has gone in the hospital about twice a year, once if it's a great year, for 2 week stretches. As kids we'd hang out and color or whatever. That was the extent of our acknowledgement of her illness. I have literally never researched CF and basically ignored the implications it has on my sister's lifespan for a decade. Any CF knowledge I have is pure osmosis. A few weeks ago she went back in the hospital with PFTs of 20%, the lowest she has ever had in her life. Luckily the doctors were able to find something that raised them back up to 55 or so but she is not taking care of herself at all. She is lying to me and her family about everything. She looks sicker than I have ever seen. I've tried to talk to her, her family has, my mother (they're very close) has, and nothing going through. I'm the person she's most likely to listen to but still, nothing. She's self-destructing. I'm suddenly realizing that she could die, even soon. I...
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