My Great Strides Story
Mary Rankin
Fundraising for Atlanta Great Strides 2026
Mary Rankin
A NOTE FROM KIM and BRYAN about MARY.....
You would never know it by looking at her, but Mary is constantly struggling for each breath.
Since the Great Strides walk last year, Mary has been on IV antibiotics for 9 different weeks. She spent two weeks in the hospital last June, two more weeks on IVs at home in August, three weeks on IVs in February, and unfortunately she is on another two week round of IV medications. Needless to say, it has been a difficult year. She is currently spending 4 hours a day hooked up to IV meds. This is in addition to the one and a half hours of daily pulmonary vest treatments, several nebulized medications and all of the oral pills she needs just to function. Regrettably, the bacteria she has been harboring is becoming resistant to the medications. She has also been on an additional triple drug combination for another CF superbug since last August. Her body has so many medications going into it that I don’t know how she is able to function daily. Her normal lung function (when NOT ill) this past year only ranged in the 40%s. If all this keeps up, her body is going to fail.
But there is hope. Mary is on the brink of being able to take Alyftrek which is similar to Trikafta. This is AMAZING, news and we are so hopeful that it will stop the disease where it is at.
Until then, Mary will be hanging on a little bit longer while her body summons the strength to get through this current, hard season. Would you join us in helping make CF stand for "cure found"?
We are writing to ask you to donate to the Great Strides Walk benefitting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Please consider donating and feel free to join us on the walk on Saturday morning, May 16th at Suwanee Town Center Park, located at 330 Town Center Ave, Suwanee, GA 30024. We would love to have you with us supporting her!
Click the YELLOW button above to donate.
Click https://youtu.be/qzFfByz2Wcs?si=-476pUoZThP0w1ZM to watch an older video we made in 2017.
Thank you from all of us!
Mary, Bryan, Kim, Andy, Noelle, David and John Rankin
You would never know it by looking at her, but Mary is constantly struggling for each breath.
Since the Great Strides walk last year, Mary has been on IV antibiotics for 9 different weeks. She spent two weeks in the hospital last June, two more weeks on IVs at home in August, three weeks on IVs in February, and unfortunately she is on another two week round of IV medications. Needless to say, it has been a difficult year. She is currently spending 4 hours a day hooked up to IV meds. This is in addition to the one and a half hours of daily pulmonary vest treatments, several nebulized medications and all of the oral pills she needs just to function. Regrettably, the bacteria she has been harboring is becoming resistant to the medications. She has also been on an additional triple drug combination for another CF superbug since last August. Her body has so many medications going into it that I don’t know how she is able to function daily. Her normal lung function (when NOT ill) this past year only ranged in the 40%s. If all this keeps up, her body is going to fail.
But there is hope. Mary is on the brink of being able to take Alyftrek which is similar to Trikafta. This is AMAZING, news and we are so hopeful that it will stop the disease where it is at.
Until then, Mary will be hanging on a little bit longer while her body summons the strength to get through this current, hard season. Would you join us in helping make CF stand for "cure found"?
We are writing to ask you to donate to the Great Strides Walk benefitting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Please consider donating and feel free to join us on the walk on Saturday morning, May 16th at Suwanee Town Center Park, located at 330 Town Center Ave, Suwanee, GA 30024. We would love to have you with us supporting her!
Click the YELLOW button above to donate.
Click https://youtu.be/qzFfByz2Wcs?si=-476pUoZThP0w1ZM to watch an older video we made in 2017.
Thank you from all of us!
Mary, Bryan, Kim, Andy, Noelle, David and John Rankin
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