Mallory , I just want to interject here.
Mallory 's classmates and her friends read the book and treated her, throughout her childhood, as if she were a regular kid.
Mallory always said yes.
Mallory , on the other hand, understood the severity and turned to Mark and said, am I going to die?
Mallory adopted her own mantra, which was, "Live happy." Now I want to tell you a little bit about Mallory .
Mallory felt their unresponsiveness to her pain was equivalent to torture.
Mallory asked her CF team to intervene.
Mallory wanted to be part of an industry-wide conversation that would address both the opioid epidemic and the very well-documented overreaction of well-meaning doctors
Mallory met Jack on New Year's Eve.
Mallory often said that the issue of disclosure was one of the hardest things about having an invisible illness.
Mallory also feared that no man would love her enough to accept the complications of her disease, so she often wrestled with the decision
Mallory knew she was incredibly lucky, but she understood that not everybody would be.
Mallory and I spent a grueling week in Pittsburgh, and the reason I say grueling is that, in order to be accepted for transplant, you
Mallory started writing when she was 15.
Mallory was incredibly articulate and astute, and in her journal she describes so many things that are helpful both to the medical community,
Mallory 's legacy is in her wit, her words, and her wisdom, the salt in her soul.
Mallory comes from a family with a lot of resources and the ability to do some pretty incredible things-- moving around the country, all the time you were
Mallory suffered.
Mallory had a knack that she was very good at of turning some of her darkest moments into some of her finest hours.
Mallory lived happy, but Diane and I also strove to be happy.
Mallory was a great teacher as well as partner, so I learned a lot from dating her that I hope to share now.
Mallory and I talked about marriage and children, but decided to put off engagement and things like that so that she could fight for her life.
Anybody-- Mallory , maybe?
Before Mallory 's diagnosis, she had a lot of symptoms-- a persistent cough, a chronic runny nose, a massive bowel movements, the first indication
Once Mallory started the CF protocol, it was hard to get her to do treatments.
that Mallory had to deal with.
When Mallory was 12, life changed again.
While Mallory 's friends were grappling with normal, post-college questions, Mallory had to deal with things like IVs and indignities.
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.
Losing Mallory was catastrophic.
And Mallory said very clearly, I don't care if you cry.
I'm Mallory Maedke.
So me and Mallory covered three and three.
I'm Mallory Portnoy, and I play Gurdy Cummings.
and saw Mallory filled with love and happiness, surrounded by her parents and her grandparents, and he reassured me that she would live a happy life.
I also would sneak Mallory out of the hospital for long walks, and one time, arranged for somebody to pick her up and take her to a football game for three
I also insisted that Mallory keep enzymes by the bedside, which the pharmacy wanted to control, because it's a medicine she takes every single day at home
bed to make sure Mallory was never alone at night.
This is Mallory 's brother, Micah, who always was there for her, gave her a big hug, and said not to worry, that he would always have her back.
This was Mallory 's experience, and she writes about being victimized.
It wasn't until Mallory left for college that she actually ever had to think about how to tell people about her invisible illness.
But in Mallory 's case, the miracle came in the form of a very close friend with connections to the highest level of insurance company's management.
or he explained to Mallory and Mallory told me-- was that he heard me with my no negativity and he was too sad and crying and couldn't be there.
It was Jim Mallory .
So Tamika Mallory , Carmen Perez, Linda Sarsour, Bob Bland, the four co-chairs of the March.
So Tamika Mallory , who many of you may know, is quite, she got a little spice in her, you know?
Pictured here on-- George Mallory .
body of George Mallory .
And I actually want to hear from Mallory as well, but from auditioning to finding out you got the role, what was that like?
The most perceptive doctors recognized Mallory 's uncanny ability to understand and articulate what she was dealing with and what she had to do.