Today's "CF Champion" spotlight is Team Crue for a Cure's Cassie Rose:
The Crue for a Cure is
proud to once again participate in the Make CF History hockey
tournament. We have temporarily changed our name to "Cassie’s Crue for a
Cure" in honor of a teammate’s family friend who passed in 2012.
Cassie
Rose was born in 1979 and was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at 15
months of age. Her parents were told that the life expectancy was 5
years although she proved this span wrong and was never truly ill enough
to be hospitalized for years. She played t-ball and softball for 11
years. Cassie continued to defy the odds by playing varsity volleyball
and even marching in the Cadiz High School Marching Band. She even took a
trip to Europe after her high school graduation.
In
2007, Cassie was told that she needed a double lung transplant and in
September of 2008 she received two new lungs at The University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center. The transplant allowed her to spend valuable
time with her family and friends and to once again do things that she
had not been able to do before the surgery.
Problems
developed and she would have another double lung transplant in 2010.
Unfortunately, she would never fully recover from this surgery and on
April 22, 2012 Cassie passed away.
Cassie left
behind two beautiful daughters, Kyle and Juliana, born in 1998 and 2000
respectively. She always wanted to be a mother and was told that it
would never be possible given her condition. Well, she proved everyone
wrong; she persevered for her daughters and fought with all that she
could.
Through all the years of testing, trips
to the hospital, doctors visits, drugs, ER visits, and surgeries Cassie
never asked “why me”. It is with that spirit that we are so proud to
play in the memory of this strong young woman. It the hope of her
family, our team, and most likely that of Cassie herself, that a cure
can be found so that others may not suffer.
-Cassie’s Cure for a Cure
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