Together toward a cure for pulmonary fibrosis
Your donation gets us one step closer to our goal
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I am proud to be fundraising for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) as we walk together toward a cure for pulmonary fibrosis (PF) at the PFF Walk 2024. Join me in supporting this vital cause by donating to my fundraising efforts.
The PFF Walk supports the Foundation’s efforts to accelerate research, to advance improved care for those living with the disease, and to provide unequaled support and education resources for patients, caregivers, family members, and healthcare providers.
Your gift will power progress, and I appreciate your generosity in supporting a cause that is important to me!
Your gift will make a valuable contribution to our vision of a world without PF. For more information on how your gift will make a difference in the lives of PF patients and their families, please visit pulmonaryfibrosis.org.
I am grateful for your support as we walk together toward a cure.
On a personal note, it's difficult to process that it's been 20 years since Pulmonary Fibrosis took mom from us. Looking through photos trying to find one for a cover page was equally difficult to process. Mom was very private, not wanting the camera on her. I don't have a lot of her digitally, but I'll continue to post as I uncover them. Alas, my digital photos are full of all of the living myself and my siblings have lived since she's been gone. The travels, the moves, the careers, the homes we've lived in and sold, the loves we've had and those we've lost, the marriages, the most wonderful little boy that makes us all happier just by being in his world. The too few years we spent with her made us who we are today.
The truth is that my mom's Pulmonary Fibrosis is familial. There is a liklihood that one of us with her genes will also get the disease. I'm grateful for the work that the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation does each and every day and each and every year to advance awareness, research and resources for those affected by this awful disease. Monica, Jesse and I were at the first Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Walk in Chicago and it was the first time I had every spoken to anyone outside of my family who knew about the disease, let alone hundreds and hundreds of people. That experience holds a special place in my heart, so I'm thrilled to be back doing a PFF walk in my new home on the east coast. Here's to walking together toward a cure!
