CF Adventure Camp this Summer

MissGoobergirl

New member
Hello All
My name is Becki Snyder and I am the director of YOUNGLUNG Support Services, INC. We are a non-profit group that provides support services for young people with asthma and other lung diseases. Our major project is Camp Mosquito. It is an adventure based week long camp in the mountains of Tennessee for anyone over 7yo to 40ish and includes family members if they would like to also attend.

We do all sorts of fun activities, breathing games,horseback riding, tubing, rafting,canoeing, the climbing wall, zip line, high ropes confidence course, crafts, swimming, hiking, etc. We accept any camper from mild exercise induced asthma to end stage oxygen dependant cystic fibrosis.

Camp will be held June 6-10th, 2005 at Camp Wesley Woods in Walland , TN. Our camp does work with Angel Flight and can provide free airfare to some campers.

The biggest thing camp promotes is a fun, safe time and all of our campers parents have commented on their child's/teens increase in medication compliance.

I myself am 26yo and just had a double lung transplant in September. I am also a nurse.

I can email or mail anyone a brochure. We have our own lodge this year and I know it'll be a blast ! ! !

Please check out the organization's website at :
www.younglung.org

Camp Mosquito can be reached from there ! ! !


Unfortunately those with MRSA/ORSA and Cepacia cannot attend.


Email me at :
Becki Snyder
campmosquito@younglung.org

Hope to hear from you.

Becki Snyder
Director and Fellow Ex-Wheezer
 

anonymous

New member
A great idea whose time has past. Let's not forget that those with CF often grow bacteria long before it can be found in a sputum culture, which is why the CF Foundation no longer endorses CF camp, and why most clinics/hospitals require all the CF patients to wear masks and avoid close contact.<img src="i/expressions/brokenheart.gif" border="0">
 
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