Beth (was Not CF, but positive thoughts needed)

[Guest guest]

What a special person you are! Thanks for stumbling into our little

world, liking us, and being courageous and patient enough to stay.

You're like the proverbial pebble tossed into a pond: the people you

meet here, and the information you take with you are the ripples of

awareness that you'll share with others.

Bless you for caring.

Kim

> You signed your name " No CF " . Does your boyfriend have CF? If

so,

> > how is he doing?

> > Marcia

>

> No he does not. I met him online because we share the same birthday

> March 10th. I was searching the internet and came across this yahoo

> group. I joined in Jan 2003 just to read a little about CF. I had

> heard of it but wasn't really sure what it was. I ended up liking

> the people here and felt the cause was worth supporting, even if

its

> just through educating myself. I have never met any one with the

> disease as it's not that common. Well its common enough to have

more

> than one CF patient per hospital but is probably less common than

my

> brother's birth defect of Spina Bifida (1 per 1000 births?).

Anyway,

> this is actually one of my favorite groups on the internet and I

> have read every post since I joined. I have learned about CF but I

> have also learned about magnesium and a zillion other things.

>

> Besides CF I also read journal updates of ill children through

> Caringbridge personal websites. These children have cancer,

> Fanconi's Anemia, Krabbe's disease etc....and many are/will be/have

> been in hospital and needed bone marrow transplants.

>

> So I keep lots of people in my special thoughts everyday.

>

> Beth 24, Seattle