How to pronounce “cepa” in English

I have to fight crying each time.to see if we could eradicate the B. cepacia infection and save her life.

Over the next few months, the antibiotics seemed to stop working and Mallory was inching closer to the time when she would need a transplant.The only center in the country that would accept her, because of the cepacia, was University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, UPMC.They asked us to come in for a week-long evaluation, and when we said, great, anytime, tell us when, they explained that the difficulty would

When Mallory was 12, life changed again.We got the call saying that her lungs had been colonized by the normally harmless bacteria called B. cepacia.When patients with CF get cepacia, one of three things happens.

which was important because her deep passion was environmental education, and everybody told her that if she worked in the field, it would expose her and put herat additional risk. But sadly, a few months after living there, cepacia reared its ugly head again and Mallory took a turn for the worse,ending up in the hospital for long stretches of time.

and become ineligible for transplant.At the time, Mallory wasn't even listed for transplant, and because of the cepacia, which is considered a superbug, we weren't sure she would ever be listed.Mallory felt their unresponsiveness to her pain was equivalent to torture.

As Mallory's health continued to decline, her Stanford doctors asked her to move back up north so they could get a better handle on her care.They felt that the team at UCLA, while stellar transplant doctors and having a great CF clinic, didn't really understand cepacia.For a few magical months Mallory stayed out of the hospital.