As many of you may know, our household has five crazy boys at home. You may see them running around at times and being a little too loud and wild. They are full of life, energy, and surprises. Our second born, Caden, 8, gave us a surprise from the start. He was born with Cystic Fibrosis, a rare genetic disease my husband and I didn’t know we carried that got passed down to him. On the outside, Caden fits right in with the craziness of his brothers. You’d never know looking at him the battle he is fighting on the inside. We have gone through many ups and downs in his short 8 years of life but have been so grateful for the advances in drug therapies over the last few years thanks to the CF foundation and their fundraising work. Our son will not live the life children his age did just 10 short years ago. The horizon looks promising. But with all that’s come down the pipeline, Caden still has to take over 25 pills a day, vitamins, a modulator drug, 3 inhaled medications twice per day, and use an oscillating vest twice per day. He also has developed CF related liver disease (cirrhosis of the liver)  which is causing his spleen to be enlarged. Caden cannot participate in every single sport on earth, which he would love to do. Often times he has to cheer on his buddies from the sidelines.  

With your help here we can one day make CF stand for cure found. 

Every year we do a CF Zoo walk in honor of Caden and all those battling and that have lost their lives to this disease. 

Please consider joining our team! All money raised will go directly to the Cystic Fibrosis Northeast Ohio chapter zoo walk where this group works tirelessly to find a cure for CF. 

Let’s be grateful today for all the healthy children in our lives and continue to keep in mind our fighters!

We’d love to have your support on walk day! Please join us Saturday morning May 17th at 8:30am at the Cleveland Zoo for our walk!

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for being a part of our journey with Caden.