Breathing Through a Straw: The Remarkable Story of a Father Who Would Stop at Nothing to Keep His Son Alive....and His Son Who Refused Against All Odds to Stop Breathing

Breathing through a Straw is a memoir of a father’s fight to do absolutely everything to save his son’s life. On the day of our son’s birth, my wife and I had unknowingly granted Cody a death sentence. He has the worst genetic combination of Cystic Fibrosis genes, delivered to him by his genetic family tree. A many-generational Molotov cocktail that would kill him. We wouldn’t learn this until our son was 6 months old.

When Cody Sheehan was 6 months old his parents Mark and Bridget received...