Facing an Uncertain Future, Lawyer with Lung Disease Focuses on Music
After being diagnosed with a potentially fatal lung disease, Jeff Bove rearranged his priorities.
Now 58, the Wilmington, Del., attorney has spent the last seven months preparing to release a four-disc box set of his work with four local bands over the past 25 years. It is dedicated to his wife of 33 years.
Having completed this task, Bove plans to put himself on a lung transplant waiting list shortly, reports the Pulp Culture blog of the News Journal.
His disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, makes it difficult for Bove to breathe, so he can no longer work at his Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz intellectual property law firm. Even going downstairs from his bedroom in his home in nearby Chadds Ford, Pa., is difficult, and Bove does so only once or twice a day.
“I found it fascinating that as he is facing his mortality that his music became more important to him,” says Marc Moss of Target Studios in Wilmington, who helped Bove create the box set. “When you are facing something like that, all of a sudden your passion starts becoming more important to you. It’s an interesting lesson for all of us, I think.”
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