Sarah Cleaver's Cystic Fibrosis


I was born in June l9th l985. My mum always knew I had something wrong with me. All the doctors that mum went to said mum was funny in the head.

They finally believed mum that I had Cystic Fibrosis (CF) on my first birthday so I had to go into hospital and get a drip put in my foot . A drip is a long line that goes into you wherever the doctor puts it. It usely gives people antibiotics to help them get better.

I have had CF for 8 1/2 years but soon it will be 9.

A few weeks ago I went to my best friend, Carly Phoebe's sleep-over on 6th March 1994. I had to do my nebulizer by myself. I have 2 nebs and physiotherapy (physio) in the morning and again in the night but that night I just had my second neb. I had to use a needle to take it out of the little bottle. Taryn Robinson asked me if I had to have the needle, I said "No."

I am glad that people don't hate me just because of my illness.

Last year I went to hospital three times. Each time I went the only things I enjoyed were; getting presents and Radio Lollipop. In Radio Lollie Pop Magic Marnie called me "Massaging Queen!" The third time I was in I had a sign outside my door (I was in a room by myself) that read

"Magic Marnie's Massaging Queen
come to me, because I'm free
signed; Sarah Cleaver!:"

A girl that was in my class then gave me a Get Well soon card and got all the girls in the glass to put their narne under. That girl was Kerri Simpson. The first time I was in hospital she visited me to.

In hospital I met quite a few people. They were;
Shannon, Angela, Julie, Shaun, Jennifer, Brian, Jayde, Sharree, Timothy, Bowe and Elizabeth. Oh, I forgot Sarah and Breanna!


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