by Laura Bonnell | Aug 14, 2023 | Podcasts
Healthwell is a foundation that helps people pay bills that impact 90 different disease groups. They cover what insurance does not. The Bonnell Foundation will refer people to Healthwell when the financial need is greater than we can give, or if we don’t cover a...
by Laura Bonnell | Aug 7, 2023 | Podcasts
You will want to learn more about Bob Emmelkamp after this podcast, I promise! I feel like Bob is everywhere and supportive of everyone. Without a DNA connection to cystic fibrosis, Bob Emmelkamp became a lifelong CF fund-raising volunteer in 1976, when he helped put...
by Laura Bonnell | Jul 17, 2023 | Podcasts
Who will want to take on a person with CF? That is the question many women born with the disease think about after high school. Megan Bauer thought about it a lot. Until she met Alec. At 26 years old the University of Michigan graduate is happily in love. But until...
by Laura Bonnell | Jul 10, 2023 | Podcasts
The CF community is a small one. It’s made up of 40,000 people with the disease in the U.S. When you add two parents to the mix that’s 80,000 parents, then there are grandparents, siblings, Aunt and Uncles, friends and you get the picture. We have a small, tight knit...
by Laura Bonnell | Jun 19, 2023 | Podcasts
CF in the family. Making it your life’s purpose. Then The Crossing for cystic fibrosis, from the Bahamas to Florida was born. Travis’ parents didn’t know they had three children with CF. When Travis’s daughter Piper was always sick, CF...
