Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month

Our friends Max and Maddie from Chicago are some very cute kids who both happen to have Cystic Fibrosis. As with our little Matthijas and his Autism, there is no cure for Cystic Fibrosis but there are ways to make day to day life better for the kids who have to deal with these afflictions. April asked me to make a plug for awareness on our blog, and I am happy to do so.

Their family didn't find out that Maddie had Cystic Fibrosis (despite many what now seem obvious clues and many trips to fancy Chicago doctors) until the day that Max was born, and once both kids were diagnosed the information that the hospital gave the parents was horribly outdated and terrifying. As with Autism, most children are diagnosed by the time they are 2, but usually not until after a lot of concern over "What could be wrong with my baby?".

Here are our poster children friends looking happy and cute and well. Please take a few minutes to scan the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation website to learn more about how things are changing for these great kids... http://www.cff.org/.