Teens With Diseases

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For teens with diseases, growing up is even harder

They're trying to fit in with peers and gain independence.

nne Krupa, who is diabetic, knows firsthand what her daughter,

, 13, is going through. (April Saul / Inquirer)

By FitzGerald

INQUIRER STAFF WRITERWhen 13-year-old Rebeka Abrams fights with her mother,

it isn't over typical teenage issues such as dating or curfews.Their battles

are over Abrams' diabetes. Abrams' mother suspects Abrams is slack with her

medical regimen. Abrams thinks her mother doesn't trust her to manage her

disease. " She thinks I'm not taking my insulin or I'm not checking my blood

sugar, " said Abrams, a seventh-grader from Lansford, Pa. " One time she

thought my friends were giving me candy and she told my friends if they were

giving me candy I wouldn't be allowed to talk with them. " What Abrams views as

heavy-handedness, her mother, Eleanore Milliern, sees as good parenting:

" Diabetes can kill her. It can also destroy her kidneys, her eyesight, her

nerve endings. She can end up losing her toes, fingers, limbs if she doesn't

keep it under control. " The experiences of Abrams and her mother are not

unusual. More than five million youths under 18 are affected by chronic

illnesses such as asthma, sickle cell anemia, epilepsy, arthritis, diabetes,

and Crohn's and other bowel diseases, according to the National Center for

Health Statistics. For such children, the teenage years can be especially

tough. " You take the difficulties of adolescence and on top of that you have a

life-threatening illness, " said Chavis , a clinical psychologist

with the Sickle Cell Disease Center at St. 's Hospital for

Children in North Philadelphia. " It's difficult for the kids and for their

family. " For young people such as Abrams, the disease itself can become a

point of rebellion. Teens sometimes won't take their medicine on time or will

eat what they shouldn't, just because they don't want to do what their

parents tell them. " They will use their disease as one of their

battlegrounds, " said Baldassano, a physician who heads the

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.At

least 10 percent of American children have some sort of chronic illness,

though most of the conditions aren't life-threatening, according to the

American Academy of Pediatrics. Along with the normal emotional ups and downs

of being a teenager, teens with chronic illness have challenging and often

confusing issues to deal with:How do they achieve independence, a natural

part of growing up, when they still rely heavily on their parents to take

care of their medical needs? How do they fit in with their peers when they

have a disease that can make them stand out? How do they adhere to special

diets and medication schedules when they are spending more time with friends

and less at home? How do they deal with the demands of school when their

disease causes them to be absent frequently? " Adolescence is a transitional

time - kids are looking for an identity, testing all the boundaries . . .

wanting to fit into a group, " said Rena Bernstein, a nurse practitioner at

Children's Hospital who specializes in diabetes. " Now add into that a

life-threatening illness. " Teens' feelings about their disease can often be

contradictory: Why should they worry about their health - aren't they young

and invincible? How do they look to the future when they have a disease that

can kill them? " I'm not ashamed I have sickle cell, " said Price, 15, of

North Philadelphia. Even so, " I pick and choose the friends I tell. " Her blood

disorder, which causes anemia, episodes of severe pain, and damage to organs

and tissue, has already caused Price to miss about six weeks worth of school

this year. When pain flared up two weeks ago, she tried to ignore it because

she had exams coming up, but the pain became so intense she was admitted to

St. 's for a week.Price knows the sickle cell disease could kill

her before she reaches middle age, but she takes a matter-of-fact view and

does not dwell on her illness: " Death is going to happen anyway, " she said.

" There's not anything you can do to stop it. " Parents of chronically ill teens

wrestle with issues, too. " You're losing control, and then you're dealing with

the fact that teenagers don't do things when you want them to, " said

Burton of Bridgeton, N.J., whose 16-year-old son, , has diabetes.

" He'll look at us like we're harassing him, but we say, 'Look, it's for your

own good.' " Adolescents often don't take the long view. " It gets really

annoying having to take pills three times a day every day, " said

Crossan, 12, of Havertown, Delaware County, who has Crohn's disease, an

inflammatory bowel disease that can cause severe abdominal pain, fever,

diarrhea, and loss of weight. is supposed to take 13 pills a day, but

sometimes he skips a dose. " Most of the time I just forget, " said , a

seventh-grader at St. Denis School in Havertown who plays basketball,

football and baseball, " but other times I don't think it's working. " He

reasons that if he's going to get sick anyway, why bother taking his

medicine? " From a parental standpoint, it's a battle because we want

to understand how important it is for him " to take charge of his own health,

's father, , said. " But most of the time, it's us keeping up with

him. " Carlton Dampier, director of the sickle cell program at St.

's, said moving from constant parental oversight toward greater

independence is essential for teenagers.Letting go can be scary when parents

are dealing with a disease that can be both debilitating and deadly. For

someone with diabetes, for instance, too little insulin can create a

dangerous metabolic imbalance and can lead to coma and even death. With

sickle cell disease, episodes of severe pain can be triggered by something as

simple as cold weather or overexertion. Even a swim in brisk ocean water can

be problematic, said Beth Ely, a St. 's nurse and researcher who

specializes in sickle cell disease.Marcus , 12, of Camden, said his

mother carefully monitors what he wears so he won't get chilled. On days when

his friends are walking around in light jackets and basketball shorts, his

mother insists he bundle up. " I say to my mom she's being too protective, "

Marcus said. Still, he knows what it feels like when the pain erupts. " It's

like someone is stabbing me. It really, really hurts, " he said. " Sometimes it

feels like someone is hitting me in my back. " Though teens may resent their

parents asking questions and monitoring their daily medical routine,

Bernstein advises parents to stay very much involved in their teen's care.

During the teen years when youths are growing and hormones are surging,

keeping diabetes under control can be more difficult, Bernstein said. " We used

to preach 'Let them do more on their own,' but now we say 'stay involved,

keep an eye out,' " she said. In the Krupa household in Woodbury Heights, G

loucester County, both mother and daughter have diabetes, so nne knows

firsthand what her teenage daughter is going through.

Krupa, 13, who plays softball and tennis and enjoys dancing, said her parents

aren't on her case " 24-7, " but " they'll say, 'Did you take your needle?' just

to make sure. " For her, even the teenage habit of sleeping in late can be

problematic.As soon as Krupa wakes in the morning, she must check her blood

sugar, give herself an insulin shot and eat. On Saturdays, her parents give

her a little latitude, letting her sleep until about 10. Sometimes " I'll get

up, eat, and go back to sleep, " said.Rebeka Abrams, who drives from

her home in Northeast Pennsylvania to Children's Hospital for diabetes care,

said she once got so mad with her mother that she skipped her blood-sugar

checks just to spite her. " I ended up paying for it, " Abrams said. " I got

really sick. " Though she and her mother still squabble about her diabetes,

Rebeka is more understanding. " She points the finger at me like it's all my

fault that my sugar is up and it's not, " Abrams said. " But I can see her

point in doing it because she doesn't want anything bad to happen to me. "

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Bev, my two daughters do the walk each year, the sad thing is they were

walking faster then mom (LOL).. and like i said here before each year we have

a cf benefit to raise money for cf research (02/09/02) and they sell chances

and help with all the baskets for prizes... my oldest daughter keeps joking

the she will have to be taking over soon, she is 20. because she goes to

college for public relation and communcation, so she said that will be her

and her sister mission next year to try to raise more money then we did... i

hope she does. patty

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Bev, thank you , you can always raise my spirts, thank god we have you on are

team...patty

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Becki

I don't kmow if it's harder growing up with a disease or just

different. wcf is 17 and she hasn't had much trouble fitting

in, but she also likes to pull pracital jokes, like going to

pulmonary clinic with a blue sucker turning her lips blue. She seems

to fit in with her peers, she is in jazz, concert, pep,and marching

band where she plays different insturments, she also has diabetes,

she is in 4-h too, and also plays the organ for our church.

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- In cfparents@y..., MissGooberGirl@a... wrote:

> Hey...

> Not sure it this has been sent or not...if not..well its good

reading...=)

>

> For teens with diseases, growing up is even harder

>

> They're trying to fit in with peers and gain independence.

> nne Krupa, who is diabetic, knows firsthand what her daughter,

> , 13, is going through. (April Saul / Inquirer)

> By FitzGerald

> INQUIRER STAFF WRITERWhen 13-year-old Rebeka Abrams fights with her

mother,

> it isn't over typical teenage issues such as dating or

curfews.Their battles

> are over Abrams' diabetes. Abrams' mother suspects Abrams is slack

with her

> medical regimen. Abrams thinks her mother doesn't trust her to

manage her

> disease. " She thinks I'm not taking my insulin or I'm not checking

my blood

> sugar, " said Abrams, a seventh-grader from Lansford, Pa. " One time

she

> thought my friends were giving me candy and she told my friends if

they were

> giving me candy I wouldn't be allowed to talk with them. " What

Abrams views as

> heavy-handedness, her mother, Eleanore Milliern, sees as good

parenting:

> " Diabetes can kill her. It can also destroy her kidneys, her

eyesight, her

> nerve endings. She can end up losing her toes, fingers, limbs if

she doesn't

> keep it under control. " The experiences of Abrams and her mother are

not

> unusual. More than five million youths under 18 are affected by

chronic

> illnesses such as asthma, sickle cell anemia, epilepsy, arthritis,

diabetes,

> and Crohn's and other bowel diseases, according to the National

Center for

> Health Statistics. For such children, the teenage years can be

especially

> tough. " You take the difficulties of adolescence and on top of that

you have a

> life-threatening illness, " said Chavis , a clinical

psychologist

> with the Sickle Cell Disease Center at St. 's Hospital

for

> Children in North Philadelphia. " It's difficult for the kids and

for their

> family. " For young people such as Abrams, the disease itself can

become a

> point of rebellion. Teens sometimes won't take their medicine on

time or will

> eat what they shouldn't, just because they don't want to do what

their

> parents tell them. " They will use their disease as one of their

> battlegrounds, " said Baldassano, a physician who heads the

> Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Children's Hospital of

Philadelphia.At

> least 10 percent of American children have some sort of chronic

illness,

> though most of the conditions aren't life-threatening, according to

the

> American Academy of Pediatrics. Along with the normal emotional ups

and downs

> of being a teenager, teens with chronic illness have challenging

and often

> confusing issues to deal with:How do they achieve independence, a

natural

> part of growing up, when they still rely heavily on their parents

to take

> care of their medical needs? How do they fit in with their peers

when they

> have a disease that can make them stand out? How do they adhere to

special

> diets and medication schedules when they are spending more time

with friends

> and less at home? How do they deal with the demands of school when

their

> disease causes them to be absent frequently? " Adolescence is a

transitional

> time - kids are looking for an identity, testing all the

boundaries . . .

> wanting to fit into a group, " said Rena Bernstein, a nurse

practitioner at

> Children's Hospital who specializes in diabetes. " Now add into that

a

> life-threatening illness. " Teens' feelings about their disease can

often be

> contradictory: Why should they worry about their health - aren't

they young

> and invincible? How do they look to the future when they have a

disease that

> can kill them? " I'm not ashamed I have sickle cell, " said

Price, 15, of

> North Philadelphia. Even so, " I pick and choose the friends I

tell. " Her blood

> disorder, which causes anemia, episodes of severe pain, and damage

to organs

> and tissue, has already caused Price to miss about six weeks worth

of school

> this year. When pain flared up two weeks ago, she tried to ignore

it because

> she had exams coming up, but the pain became so intense she was

admitted to

> St. 's for a week.Price knows the sickle cell disease

could kill

> her before she reaches middle age, but she takes a matter-of-fact

view and

> does not dwell on her illness: " Death is going to happen anyway, "

she said.

> " There's not anything you can do to stop it. " Parents of chronically

ill teens

> wrestle with issues, too. " You're losing control, and then you're

dealing with

> the fact that teenagers don't do things when you want them to, "

said

> Burton of Bridgeton, N.J., whose 16-year-old son, , has

diabetes.

> " He'll look at us like we're harassing him, but we say, 'Look, it's

for your

> own good.' " Adolescents often don't take the long view. " It gets

really

> annoying having to take pills three times a day every day, " said

> Crossan, 12, of Havertown, Delaware County, who has Crohn's

disease, an

> inflammatory bowel disease that can cause severe abdominal pain,

fever,

> diarrhea, and loss of weight. is supposed to take 13 pills a

day, but

> sometimes he skips a dose. " Most of the time I just forget, " said

, a

> seventh-grader at St. Denis School in Havertown who plays

basketball,

> football and baseball, " but other times I don't think it's

working. " He

> reasons that if he's going to get sick anyway, why bother taking

his

> medicine? " From a parental standpoint, it's a battle because we want

> to understand how important it is for him " to take charge of his

own health,

> 's father, , said. " But most of the time, it's us

keeping up with

> him. " Carlton Dampier, director of the sickle cell program at St.

> 's, said moving from constant parental oversight toward

greater

> independence is essential for teenagers.Letting go can be scary

when parents

> are dealing with a disease that can be both debilitating and

deadly. For

> someone with diabetes, for instance, too little insulin can create

a

> dangerous metabolic imbalance and can lead to coma and even death.

With

> sickle cell disease, episodes of severe pain can be triggered by

something as

> simple as cold weather or overexertion. Even a swim in brisk ocean

water can

> be problematic, said Beth Ely, a St. 's nurse and

researcher who

> specializes in sickle cell disease.Marcus , 12, of Camden,

said his

> mother carefully monitors what he wears so he won't get chilled. On

days when

> his friends are walking around in light jackets and basketball

shorts, his

> mother insists he bundle up. " I say to my mom she's being too

protective, "

> Marcus said. Still, he knows what it feels like when the pain

erupts. " It's

> like someone is stabbing me. It really, really hurts, " he

said. " Sometimes it

> feels like someone is hitting me in my back. " Though teens may

resent their

> parents asking questions and monitoring their daily medical

routine,

> Bernstein advises parents to stay very much involved in their

teen's care.

> During the teen years when youths are growing and hormones are

surging,

> keeping diabetes under control can be more difficult, Bernstein

said. " We used

> to preach 'Let them do more on their own,' but now we say 'stay

involved,

> keep an eye out,' " she said. In the Krupa household in Woodbury

Heights, G

> loucester County, both mother and daughter have diabetes, so

nne knows

> firsthand what her teenage daughter is going

through.

> Krupa, 13, who plays softball and tennis and enjoys dancing, said

her parents

> aren't on her case " 24-7, " but " they'll say, 'Did you take your

needle?' just

> to make sure. " For her, even the teenage habit of sleeping in late

can be

> problematic.As soon as Krupa wakes in the morning, she must check

her blood

> sugar, give herself an insulin shot and eat. On Saturdays, her

parents give

> her a little latitude, letting her sleep until about 10.

Sometimes " I'll get

> up, eat, and go back to sleep, " said.Rebeka Abrams, who

drives from

> her home in Northeast Pennsylvania to Children's Hospital for

diabetes care,

> said she once got so mad with her mother that she skipped her blood-

sugar

> checks just to spite her. " I ended up paying for it, " Abrams

said. " I got

> really sick. " Though she and her mother still squabble about her

diabetes,

> Rebeka is more understanding. " She points the finger at me like it's

all my

> fault that my sugar is up and it's not, " Abrams said. " But I can

see her

> point in doing it because she doesn't want anything bad to happen

to me. "

> FitzGerald's e-mail address is sfitzgerald@p...

>

> Becki

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GOLLEE, She sounds really great!! also like another I know who also

has CF. She lives in Cocoa Bch. Does really well. I had her picture in my

newsletter last year in one issue. She was getting ready to do the great

strides walk with some of her friends. bless you for guiding so well .AND

for her following and really " DOING HER THING " ---being a teen and enjoying

it all . I wish all teens (PWCF ) could be able to do that too. That is in

my special thoughts each day............

LOVE & HUGS, grandmomBEV

Re: Teens With Diseases

Becki

I don't kmow if it's harder growing up with a disease or just

different. wcf is 17 and she hasn't had much trouble fitting

in, but she also likes to pull pracital jokes, like going to

pulmonary clinic with a blue sucker turning her lips blue. She seems

to fit in with her peers, she is in jazz, concert, pep,and marching

band where she plays different insturments, she also has diabetes,

she is in 4-h too, and also plays the organ for our church.

--

- In cfparents@y..., MissGooberGirl@a... wrote:

> Hey...

> Not sure it this has been sent or not...if not..well its good

reading...=)

>

> For teens with diseases, growing up is even harder

>

> They're trying to fit in with peers and gain independence.

> nne Krupa, who is diabetic, knows firsthand what her daughter,

> , 13, is going through. (April Saul / Inquirer)

> By FitzGerald

> INQUIRER STAFF WRITERWhen 13-year-old Rebeka Abrams fights with her

mother,

> it isn't over typical teenage issues such as dating or

curfews.Their battles

> are over Abrams' diabetes. Abrams' mother suspects Abrams is slack

with her

> medical regimen. Abrams thinks her mother doesn't trust her to

manage her

> disease. " She thinks I'm not taking my insulin or I'm not checking

my blood

> sugar, " said Abrams, a seventh-grader from Lansford, Pa. " One time

she

> thought my friends were giving me candy and she told my friends if

they were

> giving me candy I wouldn't be allowed to talk with them. " What

Abrams views as

> heavy-handedness, her mother, Eleanore Milliern, sees as good

parenting:

> " Diabetes can kill her. It can also destroy her kidneys, her

eyesight, her

> nerve endings. She can end up losing her toes, fingers, limbs if

she doesn't

> keep it under control. " The experiences of Abrams and her mother are

not

> unusual. More than five million youths under 18 are affected by

chronic

> illnesses such as asthma, sickle cell anemia, epilepsy, arthritis,

diabetes,

> and Crohn's and other bowel diseases, according to the National

Center for

> Health Statistics. For such children, the teenage years can be

especially

> tough. " You take the difficulties of adolescence and on top of that

you have a

> life-threatening illness, " said Chavis , a clinical

psychologist

> with the Sickle Cell Disease Center at St. 's Hospital

for

> Children in North Philadelphia. " It's difficult for the kids and

for their

> family. " For young people such as Abrams, the disease itself can

become a

> point of rebellion. Teens sometimes won't take their medicine on

time or will

> eat what they shouldn't, just because they don't want to do what

their

> parents tell them. " They will use their disease as one of their

> battlegrounds, " said Baldassano, a physician who heads the

> Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Children's Hospital of

Philadelphia.At

> least 10 percent of American children have some sort of chronic

illness,

> though most of the conditions aren't life-threatening, according to

the

> American Academy of Pediatrics. Along with the normal emotional ups

and downs

> of being a teenager, teens with chronic illness have challenging

and often

> confusing issues to deal with:How do they achieve independence, a

natural

> part of growing up, when they still rely heavily on their parents

to take

> care of their medical needs? How do they fit in with their peers

when they

> have a disease that can make them stand out? How do they adhere to

special

> diets and medication schedules when they are spending more time

with friends

> and less at home? How do they deal with the demands of school when

their

> disease causes them to be absent frequently? " Adolescence is a

transitional

> time - kids are looking for an identity, testing all the

boundaries . . .

> wanting to fit into a group, " said Rena Bernstein, a nurse

practitioner at

> Children's Hospital who specializes in diabetes. " Now add into that

a

> life-threatening illness. " Teens' feelings about their disease can

often be

> contradictory: Why should they worry about their health - aren't

they young

> and invincible? How do they look to the future when they have a

disease that

> can kill them? " I'm not ashamed I have sickle cell, " said

Price, 15, of

> North Philadelphia. Even so, " I pick and choose the friends I

tell. " Her blood

> disorder, which causes anemia, episodes of severe pain, and damage

to organs

> and tissue, has already caused Price to miss about six weeks worth

of school

> this year. When pain flared up two weeks ago, she tried to ignore

it because

> she had exams coming up, but the pain became so intense she was

admitted to

> St. 's for a week.Price knows the sickle cell disease

could kill

> her before she reaches middle age, but she takes a matter-of-fact

view and

> does not dwell on her illness: " Death is going to happen anyway, "

she said.

> " There's not anything you can do to stop it. " Parents of chronically

ill teens

> wrestle with issues, too. " You're losing control, and then you're

dealing with

> the fact that teenagers don't do things when you want them to, "

said

> Burton of Bridgeton, N.J., whose 16-year-old son, , has

diabetes.

> " He'll look at us like we're harassing him, but we say, 'Look, it's

for your

> own good.' " Adolescents often don't take the long view. " It gets

really

> annoying having to take pills three times a day every day, " said

> Crossan, 12, of Havertown, Delaware County, who has Crohn's

disease, an

> inflammatory bowel disease that can cause severe abdominal pain,

fever,

> diarrhea, and loss of weight. is supposed to take 13 pills a

day, but

> sometimes he skips a dose. " Most of the time I just forget, " said

, a

> seventh-grader at St. Denis School in Havertown who plays

basketball,

> football and baseball, " but other times I don't think it's

working. " He

> reasons that if he's going to get sick anyway, why bother taking

his

> medicine? " From a parental standpoint, it's a battle because we want

> to understand how important it is for him " to take charge of his

own health,

> 's father, , said. " But most of the time, it's us

keeping up with

> him. " Carlton Dampier, director of the sickle cell program at St.

> 's, said moving from constant parental oversight toward

greater

> independence is essential for teenagers.Letting go can be scary

when parents

> are dealing with a disease that can be both debilitating and

deadly. For

> someone with diabetes, for instance, too little insulin can create

a

> dangerous metabolic imbalance and can lead to coma and even death.

With

> sickle cell disease, episodes of severe pain can be triggered by

something as

> simple as cold weather or overexertion. Even a swim in brisk ocean

water can

> be problematic, said Beth Ely, a St. 's nurse and

researcher who

> specializes in sickle cell disease.Marcus , 12, of Camden,

said his

> mother carefully monitors what he wears so he won't get chilled. On

days when

> his friends are walking around in light jackets and basketball

shorts, his

> mother insists he bundle up. " I say to my mom she's being too

protective, "

> Marcus said. Still, he knows what it feels like when the pain

erupts. " It's

> like someone is stabbing me. It really, really hurts, " he

said. " Sometimes it

> feels like someone is hitting me in my back. " Though teens may

resent their

> parents asking questions and monitoring their daily medical

routine,

> Bernstein advises parents to stay very much involved in their

teen's care.

> During the teen years when youths are growing and hormones are

surging,

> keeping diabetes under control can be more difficult, Bernstein

said. " We used

> to preach 'Let them do more on their own,' but now we say 'stay

involved,

> keep an eye out,' " she said. In the Krupa household in Woodbury

Heights, G

> loucester County, both mother and daughter have diabetes, so

nne knows

> firsthand what her teenage daughter is going

through.

> Krupa, 13, who plays softball and tennis and enjoys dancing, said

her parents

> aren't on her case " 24-7, " but " they'll say, 'Did you take your

needle?' just

> to make sure. " For her, even the teenage habit of sleeping in late

can be

> problematic.As soon as Krupa wakes in the morning, she must check

her blood

> sugar, give herself an insulin shot and eat. On Saturdays, her

parents give

> her a little latitude, letting her sleep until about 10.

Sometimes " I'll get

> up, eat, and go back to sleep, " said.Rebeka Abrams, who

drives from

> her home in Northeast Pennsylvania to Children's Hospital for

diabetes care,

> said she once got so mad with her mother that she skipped her blood-

sugar

> checks just to spite her. " I ended up paying for it, " Abrams

said. " I got

> really sick. " Though she and her mother still squabble about her

diabetes,

> Rebeka is more understanding. " She points the finger at me like it's

all my

> fault that my sugar is up and it's not, " Abrams said. " But I can

see her

> point in doing it because she doesn't want anything bad to happen

to me. "

> FitzGerald's e-mail address is sfitzgerald@p...

>

> Becki

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HOW REALLY WONDERFUL....THANK YOU-----THEM---ALL THE HELP IS WONDERFUL

AND --- FOR THEM TO DO IT THEMSELVES!!!

YEAH! WHAT A TEAM THEY ARE. I AM KEEPING ALL GREAT THOUGHTS

ABOUT THEM AND THEIR ACTIVITIES & FUND RAISING!!.

" GO TEAM GO " !!

LOVE & HUGS,

GRANDMOMBEV

Re: Re: Teens With Diseases

Bev, my two daughters do the walk each year, the sad thing is they were

walking faster then mom (LOL).. and like i said here before each year we

have

a cf benefit to raise money for cf research (02/09/02) and they sell chances

and help with all the baskets for prizes... my oldest daughter keeps joking

the she will have to be taking over soon, she is 20. because she goes to

college for public relation and communcation, so she said that will be her

and her sister mission next year to try to raise more money then we did... i

hope she does. patty

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:):):) KISSES COMING YOUR WAY WITH A BIG THANK YOU. yOU JUST MADE

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HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!

LOVE & HUGS, GRANDMOMBEV

Re: Re: Teens With Diseases

Bev, thank you , you can always raise my spirts, thank god we have you on

are

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[Guest guest]

-We just started having a walk site in our area last year. Ours is

held in Sept. because we didn't it to close to the heart walk or the

relay for life walk for cancer, helps with both of them.

-- In cfparents@y..., PamH622@A... wrote:

> Bev, my two daughters do the walk each year, the sad thing is they

were

> walking faster then mom (LOL).. and like i said here before each

year we have

> a cf benefit to raise money for cf research (02/09/02) and they

sell chances

> and help with all the baskets for prizes... my oldest daughter

keeps joking

> the she will have to be taking over soon, she is 20. because she

goes to

> college for public relation and communcation, so she said that will

be her

> and her sister mission next year to try to raise more money then we

did... i

> hope she does. patty

[Guest guest]

-We just started having a walk site in our area last year. Ours is

held in Sept. because we didn't it to close to the heart walk or the

relay for life walk for cancer, helps with both of them.

-- In cfparents@y..., PamH622@A... wrote:

> Bev, my two daughters do the walk each year, the sad thing is they

were

> walking faster then mom (LOL).. and like i said here before each

year we have

> a cf benefit to raise money for cf research (02/09/02) and they

sell chances

> and help with all the baskets for prizes... my oldest daughter

keeps joking

> the she will have to be taking over soon, she is 20. because she

goes to

> college for public relation and communcation, so she said that will

be her

> and her sister mission next year to try to raise more money then we

did... i

> hope she does. patty