It's no secret that I absolutely despise fundraising! There’s just something in me that loathes the entire process of asking people for money. But...imagine you were born into this world to fight for your life. To fight for just the simple act of breathing air into your lungs. Now, imagine being the parent of that child and knowing you are their voice in this loud world, you are their advocate, you are their caregiver, you are the person who unknowingly was assigned to spend your life fighting for a cure, that you are simply the person that is responsible everyday to save that very life. That's me. That's my husband.
We had no idea what Cystic Fibrosis was before Lincoln was born and we were definitely not ready to have a child with a terminal illness placed into our arms. Honestly, I don't think anyone could ever truly be ready to have their baby diagnosed with an invisible & degenerative disease and know that without a cure, you will outlive them. That’s simply not something you can prepare for. In that moment though, I knew that I will do everything humanly possible, and I would be fighting until my very own last breath for this child. I just didn’t realize I would have to beg, fight, explain, and plead for people to understand that what you see on the OUTSIDE of his little body is nothing compared to the havoc and destruction going on INSIDE. 

I guess I didn’t imagine my parenthood experience being a full fledged battle, and yet I know that I have no choice but to keep going, keep fighting for this little boy, and keep advocating for the full life he deserves to live. I have no choice but to keep asking year after year to walk with us, to donate towards a cure, to simply fight alongside him and show him that he not only has hope for a future but he has an army of fighters walking alongside him. So, again….I despise fundraising but this is towards a cure to save my little boys life and because of that, I will never apologize, I will never be quiet, never stop educating the world on CF, and I will never stop fighting until we have a cure. Walk with us on June 6th in San Diego and donate towards a cure for Lincoln because my only prayer, my only hope, my only want, need, and wish in this life is a cure for Cystic Fibrosis. 💜🫁💪🏻