Laura Gordon

Thank you for visiting our Team Page!

We hope you have June 4th on the calendar and that you will be joining our family for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Annapolis Great Strides walk.

For 22 years you all have supported Austin, our family, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and to say we are grateful is a huge understatement. Honestly, I don’t have the words to thank you for making a difference in Austin’s future, for funding the science that will lead to a cure, for being with us every step of the way. I have tears in my eyes as I write this because how do you thank someone for helping save your son’s life? There are no words for what you all have done and what your continued support means to us.

Thanks to your generosity, we hit a very big milestone last year. $1,000,000 has been raised by our friends and family (Team Feets) since we began this journey 22 years ago. There will be some serious celebrating of this milestone at our house after the walk.

We are so proud of Austin. He loves Penn State and has had a great junior year. He is involved with the Theme Park Engineering Group, Club Bowling Team, and the Car Club. Most importantly, he is very happy.

But, Austin was home this weekend and we heard the cough, we know his body is fighting CF really hard right now. He is an Industrial Engineering major and needs to finish his semester. He also needs to be admitted to Hopkins to clean out the infection in his lungs. Since he is an adult, he is managing this process and timeline himself. His plan is to finish exams on a Friday, be seen at the Adult CF clinic on Monday, and then be admitted that evening. He will most likely get a PICC line and be on IV antibiotics for two weeks until he starts his in-person internship at Volvo.
I wish he didn’t have to balance finals with a lung exacerbation. I wish he didn’t have to spend his only free two weeks this summer on IV’s. I wish he didn’t have to do countless treatments, take thousands of pills every year. I wish he didn’t have Cystic Fibrosis. And one day he won’t – because CF will stand for Cure Found!

The CF Foundation has made incredible progress since Austin was born in 2000. People with CF are living longer, healthier lives and the CF Foundation is committed to finding a cure. We have so much hope because of this incredible Foundation. But we still need your help to get to the finish line, to the dream, to the CURE.

So we need to ask you again, will you continue to support Team Feets and walk beside us until a cure is found?

We also hope that you will join us for the walk day, the most important day of the year for our family. Celebrating this day with our friends and family is something we look forward to every year and it is going to be FUN! As always there will be music, food, and beverages and lots of laughter at both the walk and at our house. Please let us know if you can make it to the walk and/or party afterward. We have a million reasons to celebrate, and we want you there with us!

Until CF Stands for Cure Found,
Steve, Laura, Austin and Kate