for the newbies

[Guest guest]

I post this about once a year, just so the new members get the other

end of the range of possibilities with cf. I am 65; my oldest, a cf carrier,

is now 41; my middle one, also a cf carrier, is now 39; the youngest, wcf

is now 36. We are all surviving and are not total invalids. And yesm we do

have so-called " classic " cf. Now this may not be true in many of our

families or clans, but it is in ours; the only persons wcf whom we have

definite knowledge of have lived into their mid-seventies, with the exce

ption of three deaths in the early teens and one idiot who drank himself

to death (dumb!). But if we could really know about our past generations of

families, we might be amazed not so much at the number who died, most likely

of cf, but the number who survived, inclu

ding carriers with some symptoms and signs of the disease.

You get the picture--I hope!

Love to all at cfparents,

n Rojas, wcf, whose non-cf children are carriers because I have

cf which increases the liklihood with each pregnancy from 1 in 4 to:

1 in 2! We did not know that back in the Merovingian Period of my youth!

[Guest guest]

Sorry about the weird spelling, gang! Probably genetic!

n Rojas

[Guest guest]

I love reading that you are 65!!!! It gives me such hope!!

Deana

for the newbies

I post this about once a year, just so the new members get the other

end of the range of possibilities with cf. I am 65; my oldest, a cf carrier,

is now 41; my middle one, also a cf carrier, is now 39; the youngest, wcf

is now 36. We are all surviving and are not total invalids. And yesm we do

have so-called " classic " cf. Now this may not be true in many of our

families or clans, but it is in ours; the only persons wcf whom we have

definite knowledge of have lived into their mid-seventies, with the exce

ption of three deaths in the early teens and one idiot who drank himself

to death (dumb!). But if we could really know about our past generations of

families, we might be amazed not so much at the number who died, most likely

of cf, but the number who survived, inclu

ding carriers with some symptoms and signs of the disease.

You get the picture--I hope!

Love to all at cfparents,

n Rojas, wcf, whose non-cf children are carriers because I have

cf which increases the liklihood with each pregnancy from 1 in 4 to:

1 in 2! We did not know that back in the Merovingian Period of my youth!