Angelica - 22 years old!
On Saturday, May 20th, Mike and I will participate in the Great Strides walk at Brier Creek Park in Morrisville, North Carolina. We're walking for our beautiful daughter, Angelica, and to support those living with Cystic Fibrosis (CF).
I am writing to invite you to walk with us and/or make a donation to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation on behalf of Angelica.
Angelica is graduating from the University of California, San Diego in June with a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology. After graduating, she will continue working in a lab at the Salk Institute in San Diego as a Research Assistant studying pancreatic cancer. In her free time, she likes to run, swim, hike, and explore new places around San Diego with her friends. She will apply to PhD programs in Biology this fall and hopes to enter the program in fall 2024 researching cancer immunology.
Mike and I are thankful that her health is great. She continues to take her medication and does her vest to clear any mucus from her lungs. She has been in Trikafta for three and a half years, which has kept her lung function up. You'll recall that Trikafta is the first triple combination therapy to treat patients with CF. The money raised will go towards research for new therapies for those living with CF.
There are still 10% of patients who have a rare CF gene mutation, and they are waiting for a medication that will treat their particular mutation. So, just because Angelica has something to keep her healthy, we're also fighting for those who are still waiting.
The CF Foundation’s mission is to cure CF and provide all people with CF the best opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives. And obviously, that’s my goal too; to ultimately find a cure for my beautiful angel, Angelica, and everyone living with this fatal disease. I hope you will support me.
Simply click on the yellow box "Donate to Mary Beth" on your left to make a tax-deductible donation to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and make a difference
Love,
Mary Beth
Mary Beth & Mike Rock
2801 Dray Court
Raleigh, NC 27613
Rock12104@gmail.com
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Updated July 5th, 2023
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