Ryan Farrell

My Great Strides Story

Hi,
My name is Blake I am 8 years old. I'm 1 out of the 30,000 living with Cystic Fibrosis. What is CF? CF is a life-threatening disordered that I was born with. It makes up of 2 genetic genes. It affects mainly my lungs but it also affects other organs in my body. My body produces extra mucus which thickens up and coats my lungs which makes it difficult to breath. Try breathing through a straw. That's how it feels for me to breath. I do breathing treatments everyday and my vest. I take enzyme pills with every meal I eat. I also have to take vitamins. I'm on the new wonder drug Trikafta, which has changed my life dramaticaly. Im an outgoing, spontaneous, fearless little kid. You'll never notice on the outside that I'm sick on the inside. I am an amazing soccer play and enjoy playing on and off the field with my friends and want to continue playing my favorite game. I do not want there to by a time I can't play due to my CF and it feeling the need to stop me from all I have accomplished this far. I've had multiple hospital stays, which suck at a young age cause I'm confined to my room for a minimum of 7 days and can extend to weeks and sometime months. As I get older it'll start to get more difficult for me to breath. There's a lot of complications that come with having CF but I have such amazing family and friends behind my back to help fight with me through this terrible disease. And I would like if you joined my team to help us fight for a cure to end this awful battle. So please join our team or help donate cause it would mean a lot to me and my family!

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