Powassan teen loses battle with cystic fibrosis

‘May you now dance among the angels . . .’

A Powassan mother is mourning her second daughter with cystic fibrosis to die of complications following a double-lung transplant.

Jessica Gough, 19, was battling a severe chest infection at the North Bay and District Hospital. Her mother held her as she died Tuesday at 5 a.m.

“She got to the point she just no longer had the energy to fight it. She basically asked to let her go,” said her mother Kathy Gough.

“She’d had enough. She had fought and she just couldn’t do it anymore.”
Her 13-year-old daughter, Emily, also had cystic fibrosis and died Feb. 17, 2006 from complications after receiving her double-lung transplant in November 2004.

Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease that causes breathing problems as mucus builds up in the lungs, and it can also keep the body from digesting food and absorbing nutrients.

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