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I wasn't diagnosed until I was 21. I did attend school(college) before that; and at 29 still haven't. I work 32 hours a week, have a regime of things to do every day to keep my self healthy, plus a daughter to take care of. I do plan to get a degree through on line classes at Strayer or something...but my advice to you would be to not put it off. Go while you can. It is hard for me now to get motivated and to stay motivated about school. I wish that I hadn't waited...now I feel like I'll never get to do it...
Chrissy
Chrissy
I wasn't diagnosed until I was 21. I did attend school(college) before that; and at 29 still haven't. I work 32 hours a week, have a regime of things to do every day to keep my self healthy, plus a daughter to take care of. I do plan to get a degree through on line classes at Strayer or something...but my advice to you would be to not put it off. Go while you can. It is hard for me now to get motivated and to stay motivated about school. I wish that I hadn't waited...now I feel like I'll never get to do it...
Chrissy
Chrissy
I wasn't diagnosed until I was 21. I did attend school(college) before that; and at 29 still haven't. I work 32 hours a week, have a regime of things to do every day to keep my self healthy, plus a daughter to take care of. I do plan to get a degree through on line classes at Strayer or something...but my advice to you would be to not put it off. Go while you can. It is hard for me now to get motivated and to stay motivated about school. I wish that I hadn't waited...now I feel like I'll never get to do it...
Chrissy
Chrissy
I finished high school and college. I planned my hospital admissions around spring break and summer/winter vacations.
I'm glad I did it when I did, I would never have the motivation to go back to school now. My step daughter is in college and I don't miss the assignments she has to do!!!
I never really had a ton of problems when I was that age and I had soooooooooo much fun. I would suggest going to college (I lived in a dorm....it was a blast). Those were some of the best years of my life, fun wise. It was a great time.
Good luck to you and your education!
Since you are a Browns fan, do you live in Ohio?
I live right in between Cleveland and Columbus, Mansfield and Wooster.
<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
~Kelli 29 f. w/CF
I'm glad I did it when I did, I would never have the motivation to go back to school now. My step daughter is in college and I don't miss the assignments she has to do!!!
I never really had a ton of problems when I was that age and I had soooooooooo much fun. I would suggest going to college (I lived in a dorm....it was a blast). Those were some of the best years of my life, fun wise. It was a great time.
Good luck to you and your education!
Since you are a Browns fan, do you live in Ohio?
I live right in between Cleveland and Columbus, Mansfield and Wooster.
<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
~Kelli 29 f. w/CF
I finished high school and college. I planned my hospital admissions around spring break and summer/winter vacations.
I'm glad I did it when I did, I would never have the motivation to go back to school now. My step daughter is in college and I don't miss the assignments she has to do!!!
I never really had a ton of problems when I was that age and I had soooooooooo much fun. I would suggest going to college (I lived in a dorm....it was a blast). Those were some of the best years of my life, fun wise. It was a great time.
Good luck to you and your education!
Since you are a Browns fan, do you live in Ohio?
I live right in between Cleveland and Columbus, Mansfield and Wooster.
<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
~Kelli 29 f. w/CF
I'm glad I did it when I did, I would never have the motivation to go back to school now. My step daughter is in college and I don't miss the assignments she has to do!!!
I never really had a ton of problems when I was that age and I had soooooooooo much fun. I would suggest going to college (I lived in a dorm....it was a blast). Those were some of the best years of my life, fun wise. It was a great time.
Good luck to you and your education!
Since you are a Browns fan, do you live in Ohio?
I live right in between Cleveland and Columbus, Mansfield and Wooster.
<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
~Kelli 29 f. w/CF
I finished high school and college. I planned my hospital admissions around spring break and summer/winter vacations.
I'm glad I did it when I did, I would never have the motivation to go back to school now. My step daughter is in college and I don't miss the assignments she has to do!!!
I never really had a ton of problems when I was that age and I had soooooooooo much fun. I would suggest going to college (I lived in a dorm....it was a blast). Those were some of the best years of my life, fun wise. It was a great time.
Good luck to you and your education!
Since you are a Browns fan, do you live in Ohio?
I live right in between Cleveland and Columbus, Mansfield and Wooster.
<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
~Kelli 29 f. w/CF
I'm glad I did it when I did, I would never have the motivation to go back to school now. My step daughter is in college and I don't miss the assignments she has to do!!!
I never really had a ton of problems when I was that age and I had soooooooooo much fun. I would suggest going to college (I lived in a dorm....it was a blast). Those were some of the best years of my life, fun wise. It was a great time.
Good luck to you and your education!
Since you are a Browns fan, do you live in Ohio?
I live right in between Cleveland and Columbus, Mansfield and Wooster.
<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
~Kelli 29 f. w/CF
Your topic is of interest of me because I often wonder if my 13 yr. old daughter w/cf will be well enough to attend college. I will push her to go though because education is the best gift to give yourself. I am a mother of 3 who worked for 12 years in an auto. factory and am now a full time college student. I don't have health issue of my own, but I can tell you it is soooo difficult to keep up with college while raising 3 kids (4 if you count the husband and let's not forget the dog, cats, fish) and with one of those kids having cf. If I could turn back the clock with the knowledge I have today you can bet I would have finished college my first time around before kids, marriage and life as an adult happened. Also it is a lot harder to get back into the study and learn mode after about 15 years out of school. Heck, I found out that the periodic table of elements has had new chemicals added to it since my highschool chem. class-talk about feeling old!!! Chase your dreams with every ounce of passion you have and one day you will wake up a realize you caught them!! Good luck with school, if I can do it and make straight A's anyone can.
Your topic is of interest of me because I often wonder if my 13 yr. old daughter w/cf will be well enough to attend college. I will push her to go though because education is the best gift to give yourself. I am a mother of 3 who worked for 12 years in an auto. factory and am now a full time college student. I don't have health issue of my own, but I can tell you it is soooo difficult to keep up with college while raising 3 kids (4 if you count the husband and let's not forget the dog, cats, fish) and with one of those kids having cf. If I could turn back the clock with the knowledge I have today you can bet I would have finished college my first time around before kids, marriage and life as an adult happened. Also it is a lot harder to get back into the study and learn mode after about 15 years out of school. Heck, I found out that the periodic table of elements has had new chemicals added to it since my highschool chem. class-talk about feeling old!!! Chase your dreams with every ounce of passion you have and one day you will wake up a realize you caught them!! Good luck with school, if I can do it and make straight A's anyone can.
Your topic is of interest of me because I often wonder if my 13 yr. old daughter w/cf will be well enough to attend college. I will push her to go though because education is the best gift to give yourself. I am a mother of 3 who worked for 12 years in an auto. factory and am now a full time college student. I don't have health issue of my own, but I can tell you it is soooo difficult to keep up with college while raising 3 kids (4 if you count the husband and let's not forget the dog, cats, fish) and with one of those kids having cf. If I could turn back the clock with the knowledge I have today you can bet I would have finished college my first time around before kids, marriage and life as an adult happened. Also it is a lot harder to get back into the study and learn mode after about 15 years out of school. Heck, I found out that the periodic table of elements has had new chemicals added to it since my highschool chem. class-talk about feeling old!!! Chase your dreams with every ounce of passion you have and one day you will wake up a realize you caught them!! Good luck with school, if I can do it and make straight A's anyone can.
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Samsmom</b></i>
I am a mother of 3 who worked for 12 years in an auto. factory and am now a full time college student. I don't have health issue of my own, but I can tell you it is soooo difficult to keep up with college while raising 3 kids (4 if you count the husband and let's not forget the dog, cats, fish) and with one of those kids having cf. If I could turn back the clock with the knowledge I have today you can bet I would have finished college my first time around before kids, marriage and life as an adult happened. Also it is a lot harder to get back into the study and learn mode after about 15 years out of school. Heck, I found out that the periodic table of elements has had new chemicals added to it since my highschool chem. class-talk about feeling old!!! Chase your dreams with every ounce of passion you have and one day you will wake up a realize you caught them!! Good luck with school, if I can do it and make straight A's anyone can.</end quote></div>
Do you have CF, Samsmom?
I am a mother of 3 who worked for 12 years in an auto. factory and am now a full time college student. I don't have health issue of my own, but I can tell you it is soooo difficult to keep up with college while raising 3 kids (4 if you count the husband and let's not forget the dog, cats, fish) and with one of those kids having cf. If I could turn back the clock with the knowledge I have today you can bet I would have finished college my first time around before kids, marriage and life as an adult happened. Also it is a lot harder to get back into the study and learn mode after about 15 years out of school. Heck, I found out that the periodic table of elements has had new chemicals added to it since my highschool chem. class-talk about feeling old!!! Chase your dreams with every ounce of passion you have and one day you will wake up a realize you caught them!! Good luck with school, if I can do it and make straight A's anyone can.</end quote></div>
Do you have CF, Samsmom?
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Samsmom</b></i>
I am a mother of 3 who worked for 12 years in an auto. factory and am now a full time college student. I don't have health issue of my own, but I can tell you it is soooo difficult to keep up with college while raising 3 kids (4 if you count the husband and let's not forget the dog, cats, fish) and with one of those kids having cf. If I could turn back the clock with the knowledge I have today you can bet I would have finished college my first time around before kids, marriage and life as an adult happened. Also it is a lot harder to get back into the study and learn mode after about 15 years out of school. Heck, I found out that the periodic table of elements has had new chemicals added to it since my highschool chem. class-talk about feeling old!!! Chase your dreams with every ounce of passion you have and one day you will wake up a realize you caught them!! Good luck with school, if I can do it and make straight A's anyone can.</end quote></div>
Do you have CF, Samsmom?
I am a mother of 3 who worked for 12 years in an auto. factory and am now a full time college student. I don't have health issue of my own, but I can tell you it is soooo difficult to keep up with college while raising 3 kids (4 if you count the husband and let's not forget the dog, cats, fish) and with one of those kids having cf. If I could turn back the clock with the knowledge I have today you can bet I would have finished college my first time around before kids, marriage and life as an adult happened. Also it is a lot harder to get back into the study and learn mode after about 15 years out of school. Heck, I found out that the periodic table of elements has had new chemicals added to it since my highschool chem. class-talk about feeling old!!! Chase your dreams with every ounce of passion you have and one day you will wake up a realize you caught them!! Good luck with school, if I can do it and make straight A's anyone can.</end quote></div>
Do you have CF, Samsmom?
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Samsmom</b></i>
I am a mother of 3 who worked for 12 years in an auto. factory and am now a full time college student. I don't have health issue of my own, but I can tell you it is soooo difficult to keep up with college while raising 3 kids (4 if you count the husband and let's not forget the dog, cats, fish) and with one of those kids having cf. If I could turn back the clock with the knowledge I have today you can bet I would have finished college my first time around before kids, marriage and life as an adult happened. Also it is a lot harder to get back into the study and learn mode after about 15 years out of school. Heck, I found out that the periodic table of elements has had new chemicals added to it since my highschool chem. class-talk about feeling old!!! Chase your dreams with every ounce of passion you have and one day you will wake up a realize you caught them!! Good luck with school, if I can do it and make straight A's anyone can.</end quote></div>
Do you have CF, Samsmom?
I am a mother of 3 who worked for 12 years in an auto. factory and am now a full time college student. I don't have health issue of my own, but I can tell you it is soooo difficult to keep up with college while raising 3 kids (4 if you count the husband and let's not forget the dog, cats, fish) and with one of those kids having cf. If I could turn back the clock with the knowledge I have today you can bet I would have finished college my first time around before kids, marriage and life as an adult happened. Also it is a lot harder to get back into the study and learn mode after about 15 years out of school. Heck, I found out that the periodic table of elements has had new chemicals added to it since my highschool chem. class-talk about feeling old!!! Chase your dreams with every ounce of passion you have and one day you will wake up a realize you caught them!! Good luck with school, if I can do it and make straight A's anyone can.</end quote></div>
Do you have CF, Samsmom?
TCNJcystic
New member
I'm still in college, and looking to graduate on time, so long as this crazy department I'm in gets its shtuff together. If you're healthy enough for college, go. Have the full experience and do the best you can with it. If you can't live away at school, try to find a University or major college you can commute to before looking into community school because they are two completely different experiences.
I have missed school due to being in the hospital, but I'm lucky enough to in a department where everyone knows each other, and the professor's really care about us individually as their students. Most of them just let me go from work altogether and told me not to even worry about it and just get better. That is, except for Dr. Fienberg who sprung a paper on me at the end of last semester after telling me it was alright that I missed the first quiz.
Point is, you only get one shot at life, CF or not, and my recommendation is to live through every experience you can. A doctor with CF named Brian Weinstein once said, "To try and to fail is okay, but nto to try is not to live," and that's how I try to do things at least.
I have missed school due to being in the hospital, but I'm lucky enough to in a department where everyone knows each other, and the professor's really care about us individually as their students. Most of them just let me go from work altogether and told me not to even worry about it and just get better. That is, except for Dr. Fienberg who sprung a paper on me at the end of last semester after telling me it was alright that I missed the first quiz.
Point is, you only get one shot at life, CF or not, and my recommendation is to live through every experience you can. A doctor with CF named Brian Weinstein once said, "To try and to fail is okay, but nto to try is not to live," and that's how I try to do things at least.
TCNJcystic
New member
I'm still in college, and looking to graduate on time, so long as this crazy department I'm in gets its shtuff together. If you're healthy enough for college, go. Have the full experience and do the best you can with it. If you can't live away at school, try to find a University or major college you can commute to before looking into community school because they are two completely different experiences.
I have missed school due to being in the hospital, but I'm lucky enough to in a department where everyone knows each other, and the professor's really care about us individually as their students. Most of them just let me go from work altogether and told me not to even worry about it and just get better. That is, except for Dr. Fienberg who sprung a paper on me at the end of last semester after telling me it was alright that I missed the first quiz.
Point is, you only get one shot at life, CF or not, and my recommendation is to live through every experience you can. A doctor with CF named Brian Weinstein once said, "To try and to fail is okay, but nto to try is not to live," and that's how I try to do things at least.
I have missed school due to being in the hospital, but I'm lucky enough to in a department where everyone knows each other, and the professor's really care about us individually as their students. Most of them just let me go from work altogether and told me not to even worry about it and just get better. That is, except for Dr. Fienberg who sprung a paper on me at the end of last semester after telling me it was alright that I missed the first quiz.
Point is, you only get one shot at life, CF or not, and my recommendation is to live through every experience you can. A doctor with CF named Brian Weinstein once said, "To try and to fail is okay, but nto to try is not to live," and that's how I try to do things at least.
TCNJcystic
New member
I'm still in college, and looking to graduate on time, so long as this crazy department I'm in gets its shtuff together. If you're healthy enough for college, go. Have the full experience and do the best you can with it. If you can't live away at school, try to find a University or major college you can commute to before looking into community school because they are two completely different experiences.
I have missed school due to being in the hospital, but I'm lucky enough to in a department where everyone knows each other, and the professor's really care about us individually as their students. Most of them just let me go from work altogether and told me not to even worry about it and just get better. That is, except for Dr. Fienberg who sprung a paper on me at the end of last semester after telling me it was alright that I missed the first quiz.
Point is, you only get one shot at life, CF or not, and my recommendation is to live through every experience you can. A doctor with CF named Brian Weinstein once said, "To try and to fail is okay, but nto to try is not to live," and that's how I try to do things at least.
I have missed school due to being in the hospital, but I'm lucky enough to in a department where everyone knows each other, and the professor's really care about us individually as their students. Most of them just let me go from work altogether and told me not to even worry about it and just get better. That is, except for Dr. Fienberg who sprung a paper on me at the end of last semester after telling me it was alright that I missed the first quiz.
Point is, you only get one shot at life, CF or not, and my recommendation is to live through every experience you can. A doctor with CF named Brian Weinstein once said, "To try and to fail is okay, but nto to try is not to live," and that's how I try to do things at least.
Going to college was one of the most amazing experiences ever. I was also very lucky in the fact that I found a college that I completely fell in love with that was only 20 minutes away from my cousin's house and an hour and 15 minutes away from home. If something major happened, I was covered to either drive myself home or go to my cousin's house.
I was never hospitalized during the school year. I never missed an assignement and I only asked for one extension on a paper. I finished college in four years, while taking one year off to get my lung transplant. (So it took five years, but four academically).
College was one of the most amazing experiences. It was a time for me to gain independence and learn to take care of myself. I have to admit though, my best year was my senior year, after the transplant was all said and done.
It is nice to get away from family and sort of take control regarding your own health, and college is a great place to start that. You live in a dorm, so you are living on your own without actually living on your own!
I was never hospitalized during the school year. I never missed an assignement and I only asked for one extension on a paper. I finished college in four years, while taking one year off to get my lung transplant. (So it took five years, but four academically).
College was one of the most amazing experiences. It was a time for me to gain independence and learn to take care of myself. I have to admit though, my best year was my senior year, after the transplant was all said and done.
It is nice to get away from family and sort of take control regarding your own health, and college is a great place to start that. You live in a dorm, so you are living on your own without actually living on your own!
Going to college was one of the most amazing experiences ever. I was also very lucky in the fact that I found a college that I completely fell in love with that was only 20 minutes away from my cousin's house and an hour and 15 minutes away from home. If something major happened, I was covered to either drive myself home or go to my cousin's house.
I was never hospitalized during the school year. I never missed an assignement and I only asked for one extension on a paper. I finished college in four years, while taking one year off to get my lung transplant. (So it took five years, but four academically).
College was one of the most amazing experiences. It was a time for me to gain independence and learn to take care of myself. I have to admit though, my best year was my senior year, after the transplant was all said and done.
It is nice to get away from family and sort of take control regarding your own health, and college is a great place to start that. You live in a dorm, so you are living on your own without actually living on your own!
I was never hospitalized during the school year. I never missed an assignement and I only asked for one extension on a paper. I finished college in four years, while taking one year off to get my lung transplant. (So it took five years, but four academically).
College was one of the most amazing experiences. It was a time for me to gain independence and learn to take care of myself. I have to admit though, my best year was my senior year, after the transplant was all said and done.
It is nice to get away from family and sort of take control regarding your own health, and college is a great place to start that. You live in a dorm, so you are living on your own without actually living on your own!