I'm riding for my fifteen-year old daughter who suffers from Cystic Fibrosis (CF). CF attacks the lungs and the digestive system and is the most common, fatal genetic disease affecting young Canadians; the disease is presently incurable. Clogging their lungs and digestive system with thick mucus, it makes breathing difficult and hinders proper digestion. My daughter endures 3 hours of physiotherapy treatments, swallows 22-25 pills and takes 2 doses of steroids every day. This combination of medicine and physiotherapy is necessary to try to keep her healthy. And as hard as she works at staying healthy, I still hear numbers like 61% lung capacity in her small airways, 72% overall lung capacity. This December, while her school friends got a two week break to enjoy Christmas, she was admitted to the Stollery Children’s Hospital for “a tune-up”. This is a quaint way of saying the daily treatments were slowly losing the battle and she needed a powerful boost of IV antibiotics to stem the constant infections that ravage her lungs.



Please help me "Breathe life into the future" and sponsor me on this year's ride.