When Kristina was only one year old, she began to have health problems. By the time she was three, she had contracted pneumonia three times. Her mother searched for the cause and found that she had cystic fibrosis. This means that the gene responsible for liquefying all the fluid in the body is broken in the child's body. Christine needs seven to eight inhalations a day to keep the sputum from clumping in her lungs. This is how she has been living and fighting the disease for 10 years!
The inhaler can work for a year in this active mode, and then she has to change it. The one she is using now is not working so good, and soon it will stop working at all... That is why she needs a new inhaler.
Kristina is not upset. She is used to fighting for her health but wishes she had more free time for her favorite activity - she loves to draw.
We have four other children with cystic fibrosis in our care who need help.
