My Great Strides Story
Jillian Simpson
Jillian Simpson
Join Team CoJo to add tomorrows for all living with cystic fibrosis!
If you were on our team last year, welcome back and THANK YOU! If you're new here, we'd be thrilled to have you join us in 2025! In 2024, Team CoJo raised an astounding $15,580+, far exceeding our initial goals, and I couldn't be more grateful for everyone's contributions towards a cause so near and dear to us. Our hope is to raise even more in 2025 to help further the research and treatment options to benefit all with CF on the path to a cure. There have been several exciting recent developments in treatments just since last year, but even still, not all work for everyone with CF and there is not yet a cure. Far too many still suffer from CF-related health complications resulting in severe hospitalizations or worse.
About Connor (CoJo)
Connor was born in August 2023, and after an emergency surgery on Day 2 due to meconium ileus (a bowel obstruction), was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis.
Since the day he was born, he's never seized to amaze us with his strength and resilience through any challenges he's faced. From being a tiny baby with an ostomy bag for several months, multiple surgeries, and many illnesses over the past year and a half, he's persisted with a smile and has taken on any treatment necessary to get better.
Currently, Connor is ineligible to start his modulator, Trikafta, until he turns two, and we have high hopes that it will make a big difference for him to help clear mucus from his system and fight illnesses better, which has been a challenge since starting daycare. Since he was born, he's taken enzymes with every single meal to help his digestive system function and properly, also has a daily nebulizer treatment with an inhaled medication, and does a twice daily vest treatment that helps loosen and work excess mucus from his respiratory system. This guy really fights to keep himself healthy all day every day, so we as Team CoJo fight to ensure he has the best and brightest future possible and will stop at nothing until we have a cure.
Our team is committed to providing every person with CF the opportunity to live a long, healthy life. Will you join us?
If you were on our team last year, welcome back and THANK YOU! If you're new here, we'd be thrilled to have you join us in 2025! In 2024, Team CoJo raised an astounding $15,580+, far exceeding our initial goals, and I couldn't be more grateful for everyone's contributions towards a cause so near and dear to us. Our hope is to raise even more in 2025 to help further the research and treatment options to benefit all with CF on the path to a cure. There have been several exciting recent developments in treatments just since last year, but even still, not all work for everyone with CF and there is not yet a cure. Far too many still suffer from CF-related health complications resulting in severe hospitalizations or worse.
About Connor (CoJo)
Connor was born in August 2023, and after an emergency surgery on Day 2 due to meconium ileus (a bowel obstruction), was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis.
Since the day he was born, he's never seized to amaze us with his strength and resilience through any challenges he's faced. From being a tiny baby with an ostomy bag for several months, multiple surgeries, and many illnesses over the past year and a half, he's persisted with a smile and has taken on any treatment necessary to get better.
Currently, Connor is ineligible to start his modulator, Trikafta, until he turns two, and we have high hopes that it will make a big difference for him to help clear mucus from his system and fight illnesses better, which has been a challenge since starting daycare. Since he was born, he's taken enzymes with every single meal to help his digestive system function and properly, also has a daily nebulizer treatment with an inhaled medication, and does a twice daily vest treatment that helps loosen and work excess mucus from his respiratory system. This guy really fights to keep himself healthy all day every day, so we as Team CoJo fight to ensure he has the best and brightest future possible and will stop at nothing until we have a cure.
Our team is committed to providing every person with CF the opportunity to live a long, healthy life. Will you join us?
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