The Way I Walk: From Tugboat to Transplant
Cathy Cuenin migrated from Northern California to Washington to study nursing, and then north again with her husband to Southeast Alaska.  Together, with their young son, they crafted an adventuresome life living aboard and working tugboats. She fell in love with the wild country around her.  Adding later training in psychology and  acupressure to her nursing, she enjoyed an exciting career until early retirement due to a severe lung disease, LAM.  A double lung transplant extended her life, thanks to the incredible gift of donated lungs.  She now enjoys the waterways and wild lands of Washington State, where she lives with her husband, but returns to Alaska when she is able. "In country" is how they refer to their return trips to the north.  She's wild about her granddaughter, loves walking in wild country, singing, painting, and writing.  And most of all, breathing!  She works individually and with groups who are challenged with a wide range of losses.