Cormac’s great stride
Hello all,
For this blog entry I am going to get a little serious.
As you may know, I am Cormac Mac Sweeney with 660News. But some of you may not know that my girlfriend Melissa has Cystic Fibrosis.
It is not something that just happened, she has dealt with this degenerative disease since she was diagnosed shortly after birth. There is currently no cure for CF which is a disease that attacks the digestive, immune, and respiratory systems.
Here comes the “pulling the heart strings” part. Every day Melissa has mucus filling her lungs which means she has to take her medicine with a mask and go through physio-therapy three to four times. Because her pancreas is pretty much non-existent she has to take five to seven enzyme pills with each meal and snack just to digest her food and get nutrients. She is also susceptable to many viruses, infections etc. What would normally just be a hassle to us can end up being a two-week hospital stay for her … which recently happened for the second time this year.
The Great Strides Walk is May 25th and it raises funds for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and I’ll be there with Melissa looking like a dork in my running clothes. This fundraiser could help find a cure for a disease that affects more people than you may realize.
http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=449990
This is a link to donate to my efforts in the Walk. I am not asking for much, you can give anywhere from $5 dollars to $1,000,000,000,000 (if you can afford the latter). Every little bit helps. As an example, if my 400 friends on facebook give just five bucks each we can raise $2000. Think of the difference you can make.
Melissa is and always has been a sweetheart who is not bitter about having a deadly disease, rather she makes the most of life trying to be as happy as she can be in the short time she has on this earth.
Most individuals with cystic fibrosis die young: Many in their 20s and 30s from lung failure. Think about it, just by giving up a little bit of cash YOU can help extend Melissa’s life through funding advancements in life sustaining medicine.
I have never bugged you guys about stuff like this and I probably wouldn’t if it didn’t mean so much to me. Please help, and if you want to learn more about Cystic Fibrosis visit the website www.cysticfibrosis.ca or e-mail me at cormac.macsweeney@rci.rogers.com
Also if you want to walk with Melissa and I, you can register on the same site and you’ll get to see Beesley from Calgary FM (formerly with JackFM), who is hosting the event.
Thanks,
Cormac