About CF

Cystic Fibrosis

CF makes you have sticky mucus.

It can stick to your bronchial tubes. Your bronchial tubes are the branches in your lungs that look like trees. When you breathe, they fill with air. The sticky mucus sticks to your bronchial tubes. Then when you try to breathe, it’s hard to breathe. Your chest feels really tight.

CF is not contagious- you can’t give it to other people. You are born with CF- but not everyone knows that they have CF when they are young. You have it in your genes (not your blue jeans!). Genes have information that tells your body what to do and how to work. You get one set of genes from your mom and one set of genes from your dad. If you have CF that means that you got a CF gene from both of your parents. If someone only has one CF gene, they don’t get CF. It’s nobody’s fault how you get different kinds of genes.

Molly is my dog. We got her from the shelter. She is so funny. Every time I see her she puts a smile on my face. I love her so much and she loves me. One day she woke me up to come down stairs and she went down the stairs first, but I was not down stairs yet so she came back up to get me. Then we went back down stairs together.

Spring 2009

Blue Butterfly just finished her third science fair project. She did a project on how dog's bodies worked and compared them to how human bodies work. For example, she told everyone that dogs can smell better than humans- they can even smell things before we see them. She did an excellent job. I'm proud to be her science teacher! :) Katie