How to explain CF

[spicyone18]

How do you explain CF, to a non CF child? I babysit alot, and I volunteer at AWANA and work with 3rd-5th grade girls. I have one of the purple awareness braclets and the kids always ask what its for or what it says. So I read it to them then they ask what CF is, or if I have it. So I tell them yes I have it but how do you explain CF to them? Or when I babysit I am always coughing and the kids are always like "your still sick!". What do I say, or how do I explain. Any suggestions?

 

[Emily65Roses]

I'm not quite sure. I babysit Mike's baby cousins a lot, but I haven't needed to explain the CF to them yet. I have, however, tried to explain my IV meds. I've been on IV meds two or three times when still babysitting them. So I explain to his 3 year old cousin Sydney, that I get my medicine through my skin. I showed it to her, let her touch it, but explained that she needed to be careful with it. She touched it and then was very careful to avoid the tubing. Whenever she would sit on my lap, she'd look back to make sure she wasn't touching the tubing.

This was probably no help, but basically, explain it in a way that a younger kid can understand. Tell the kids you're special and you're born with something that makes you always seem sick, but that they won't get sick from you. That it's a sick that stays in you and doesn't try to make other kids sick. I don't know. This is just my best idea.