Re: CF and stats on children with CF/ROSEMARY

[Guest guest]

Can/do dogs get CF? I know that animals get cancer, aids, diabetes?

Hi Rosemary,

one joke per day is enough for me, so I take this one seriously.

Animals don't get CF and that's one of the biggest problems in CF

research. We probably would be much closer to a cure if you could run

clinical studies on animals. Instead pwcf have to be their own guinea

pigs. That makes research slower and more expensive.

It is possible to create artificial CF in mice by altering the genes.

But since mice don't live for a long time anyway it's close to

impossible to watch the lung problems in mice that on the long run

cause all of the trouble in pwcf. In the digestive area studies on CF

mice are more insightful though.

Long story short, dogs don't get CF. And if your next dog has CF,

you'll become famous in many ways, LOL.

Peace

Torsten

[Guest guest]

Hmmmm, dogs and CF dunno, our Dane hasn't gotten it yet, BUT he did get a

staph infection when he was younger. DH and I laughed at that, but the vet

failed to see the humor. My mom's a carrier and I " m the only one of her 7

kids that has kids with cf and all 3 of mine have it. We're all norweigian

too, how strange.

Jen. A. mom to 4, Yolo 2 1/2 and Phynix 6 months. All with cf.

>From: ROSEMARY3FOR3wCF@...

>Reply-To: cfparents

>To: cfparents

>Subject: Re: Re: CF and stats on children with CF/ROSEMARY

>Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:36:35 EDT

>

>They always blame everything on the luck of the Irish - just kidding.

>After

>we found out that the kids had CF we found out that my mother's cousin and

>2nd cousin in Ireland had 2 kids with CF. I don't know if my mother is a

>carrier but we found out my father is a carrier...weird right. My mother

>is

>dead so we will never know.

>

>Everyone always said my family had bad luck but I said to my father

>recently

>that he might have actually had good luck - maybe my mother was a carrier

>and

>all 6 of us were CF FREE!

>

>Ah, the luck of the Irish..........

>

>Next time I get an Irish Setter. Can/do dogs get CF? I know that animals

>get cancer, aids, diabetes?

>

>

>

>Rosemary in New York with 3 children with CF - they are 12, 9.11, 6...I

>coined the phrase " BREATHE DAMMIT " ; and now we have a dog named - are you

>ready for this - TOBI after their medication!

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hmmmm, dogs and CF dunno, our Dane hasn't gotten it yet, BUT he did get a

staph infection when he was younger. DH and I laughed at that, but the vet

failed to see the humor. My mom's a carrier and I " m the only one of her 7

kids that has kids with cf and all 3 of mine have it. We're all norweigian

too, how strange.

Jen. A. mom to 4, Yolo 2 1/2 and Phynix 6 months. All with cf.

>From: ROSEMARY3FOR3wCF@...

>Reply-To: cfparents

>To: cfparents

>Subject: Re: Re: CF and stats on children with CF/ROSEMARY

>Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:36:35 EDT

>

>They always blame everything on the luck of the Irish - just kidding.

>After

>we found out that the kids had CF we found out that my mother's cousin and

>2nd cousin in Ireland had 2 kids with CF. I don't know if my mother is a

>carrier but we found out my father is a carrier...weird right. My mother

>is

>dead so we will never know.

>

>Everyone always said my family had bad luck but I said to my father

>recently

>that he might have actually had good luck - maybe my mother was a carrier

>and

>all 6 of us were CF FREE!

>

>Ah, the luck of the Irish..........

>

>Next time I get an Irish Setter. Can/do dogs get CF? I know that animals

>get cancer, aids, diabetes?

>

>

>

>Rosemary in New York with 3 children with CF - they are 12, 9.11, 6...I

>coined the phrase " BREATHE DAMMIT " ; and now we have a dog named - are you

>ready for this - TOBI after their medication!

>

>

>