article_snippet.sent: a girl with cystic fibrosis messaged a boy with cystic fibrosis, and both cystic fibrosis lives were changed forever.
article_snippet.sent: The girl, Katie Donovan, read that the boy, Dalton Prager, was very sick.  
article_snippet.sent: Cystic fibrosis patients shouldn't be near each other because Cystic fibrosis patients can share infections that could cripple Cystic fibrosis patients already fragile lungs.
article_snippet.sent: Dr. Michael Anstead at the University of Kentucky, Katie's pulmonologist since Katie was a little girl, had lectured Katie many times that face-to-face meetings with other CF patients were a bad idea.
article_snippet.sent: In Dr. Michael Anstead at the University of Kentucky, Katie's pulmonologist since she was a little girl online conversations, one of the first things Dalton told Katie about Dalton was that Dalton had Burkholderia cepacia, a horribly dangerous infection for people with CF.
article_snippet.sent: the young couple health quickly deteriorated, and within months, the young couple went on oxygen full time.
article_snippet.sent: In August, 2014, the young couple entered the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center together to wait for new lungs.
highlights_snippet.sent: Katie and Dalton met as patients dealing with cystic fibrosis .
  