Spring is here, and once again I come to you to ask for your help in funding research to find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis. Our Great Strides fundraising walk is Saturday, April 11th this year. Please help Team Jenny raise funds needed to find a cure to this horrible disease

Our Granddaughter, Jennifer, is 24 now. She is studying to become a

Physician Assistant at Creighton University Medical School in Omaha. Jen is not a cold weather person, but she is bundled up and doing fine. She loves what she is doing, and she is making excellent grades. Her vacation time is very limited, but she managed to hunt with her family at Thanksgiving, and celebrated Christmas along with her family and her sweetheart, Dylan, at

her family’s ranch near Alpine, AZ.

She lives alone in an apartment near the school. She has stayed healthy in spite of a highly contagious flu season. As always, she spends many hours every week with her breathing treatments, medical routines, exercise, and self care. This is her life, but she stays positive and focused on achieving her goals. Dylan lives in Dallas, and they take turns visiting each other on weekends when they can.

Jennifer’s life changed in 2018 when she participated in a trial of a new miracle drug, Trikafta. Up to that point, Jennifer had not much hope for her future. She often was discouraged, and sometimes felt rebellious for all she had to endure just to live!! This medication gave her a new lease on life. It greatly improved her lung function, digestive system, and gave her energy and hope that she had never previously experienced!!

The donations that you make to Cystic Fibrosis Foundation allowed the scientists and researchers to bring this drug to Jennifer, and hundreds of others suffering from this disease. It doesn’t cure CF, but it adds years to their lives, and opens opportunities that were never before imagined!! In 2001, the year of Jennifer’s birth, the average life expectancy for CF patients was 31 years. Many children died early in life - never reaching puberty.Today, because of the donations from folks you,the life expectancy is 61+ years. 

Through donations, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has been able to support CF patients and their families, while making huge investments in research to end the disease The genetic research being done today gives us high hopes that we will see a cure for Cystic Fibrosis during our life time.

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has a 4 Star – 100% - rating with the independent “Charity Navigator”

https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/131930701

You can be assured that your donations will be used in the best ways possible to support CF patients and their families, while making huge

investments in research to end the disease.

We are hoping you can help us once again this year. If you can, please click on this link to donate online:

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fundraise.cff.org

If you prefer to mail a donation, please endorse a check to Cystic FibrosisFoundation, and mail it to:

Manny and Sue Griego

9634 N 24th St

Phoenix, AZ 85028

If you are unable to donate this year, please pray with us that soon CF will stand for CURE FOUND.

Thank you! God bless you all!

Sue and Manny