Golf fundraiser a tribute to P.E.I. man who died of cystic fibrosis
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In a few short years, Shari Affleck went from videotaping her son taking his first breath with new lungs to taking him off life support last month.
"I felt as his mom that I was the one that brought him into this world, that I would help him leave, and I didn't want it to be a stranger," Affleck said.
"When I did it, when I clamped his tubing to disconnect [him] from life support, it was like he lifted me and he released that heaviness in my chest, and it was like as if he said, 'Good job, mother.'"
Allen spent over a month in the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax.
"Luke had a lot of ups and downs during the 47 days of his hospitalization," she said. "They tried absolutely everything."
Allen was born with cystic fibrosis but had a double-lung transplant in 2019. Affleck said that let her son get back to doing some of the things he enjoyed, like playing golf.
"He's become a staple in the golf community."
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