LIVING WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS Cystic fibrosis is a rare lung disease that affects everything from your lungs to your digestive systems which can lead to infections and serious breathing complications as you get older. For a person born in the 1980's most with cystic fibrosis patients did not survive beyond their teen years. For John Clark Packer, everyday of his life has been both a gift as well as a miracle, as celebrates over 40 years of living with cystic fibrosis, he continues to over come the day to day challenges. From a very young age, watching the Dukes of Hazzard tv show, was a very important event in his life every Friday night and finally getting the opportunity to meet his hero John Schneider was another life changing experience. John Clark Packer is an Advocate for Cystic Fibrosis. John's Hero is a Duke....of Hazzard. This is the JOHN CLARK PACKER EDITION.