A Mother’s Loss — And a Grandmother’s Warning

My daughter Mallory should be here, living the life she fought so hard to stay in. Instead, I’m telling her story.

Mallory lived with cystic fibrosis (CF), but that isn’t what killed her at 25. The cause of her death was a drug-resistant bacterial infection, one that outpaced the very antibiotics designed to save her.

Her doctors had done everything right, used every tool available. And then one day in 2016, one of them looked at us and said, “The antibiotics aren’t working anymore.” He gave us a minute to absorb this news and then said, “We’re out of options.”