The Crosby Show

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Support CFF

Turn your face to the sun

And the shadows fall behind you.

{Maori Proverb}

Cystic Fibrosis is definitely an ever present shadow in our lives. When I think about the darkness that comes with the diagnosis, the "terminal illness" classification, all of the complications, all of the struggles, all of the doctor visits, medications, isolation, all of the CFers out there that suffer and struggle, those that have lost their battle, I can get overwhelmed in sadness and lost in the shadows.

Acceptance took some time, and while CF is always there, like an ever-present black cloud, we choose to turn towards hope. Hope for more tomorrows. Hope for a cure.

I cannot say enough about what the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has done for our family in providing hope for Crosby's future. Knowing what the CF Foundation does in the fight against CF, including accomplishments in research, care, advocacy and fundraising to fuel its lifesaving mission, has been a ray of sunshine since facing Crosby's diagnosis. Did you know that every medication and treatment that Crosby has taken or currently takes was developed by the CF Foundation from private donations like yours?! And there is so much more in the pipeline, but the Foundation relies on our support to fund research and development for treatments and one day, A CURE!

We hope you will join The Crosby Show this year at the Little Rock Great Strides Walk benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation!

When: MAY 21, 2016

Walk: 8:00AM

Where: Little Rock Zoe

You can join our team by clicking this link and signing up:

http://fightcf.cff.org/site/TR/GreatStrides/9_Arkansas_Little_Rock?team_id=46609&pg=team&fr_id=5060

I love the photo above of Crosby with the sunlight on his face and the shadows behind him. He catches the sun, but he doesn't know he's the light of my life.

Thank you for your support friends. See you on May 21st?!?!

Love,

Carmen, Lance and Crosby

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Now is Now

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts.

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,

Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them,

But seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backwards nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

- Kahlil Gibran

While my head knows he will grow up to be his own person, forging his own path...

My heart will never forget the moments I was able to hold him this close and feel, even fleetingly, that he was mine.

Now is now. And I am grateful.

Love,

Carmen

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Holiday Review

The holidays have come and gone and now 2016 is here. In fact, we are half way into the first month of a new year and I am just now posting about our December. But, it was a good one. We had lots of family time and that was the very best part of all.