BreathA triumphant story of hope and survival I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room. Carly Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double lung transplant at the age of twenty one and faced a rare cancer at the age of thirty. What she has endured should have killed her, but her humour, courage and optimism became her best survival skills.