A LOCAL TEAM LEADS A CYSTIC FIBROSIS WALK
FOR A FORMER DETROITER IN CALIFORNIA.

BARBARA LEWIS
Special to the JeWtsh News

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lyssa Kay remembers being 5
years old and watching as her
mother pounded on her infant
brother's back and chest. She
wasn't a witness to child abuse but to the
'postural drainage" that her brother needed
twice a day to loosen the thick mucus clog-
ging his lungs.

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Matt Colman, now 25, was
earned a degree in film last
Team Matt members
born with cystic fibrosis (CF), a
year
from the University of
on the trail at Drake
genetic condition that causes the
Michigan.
Then he moved to
Sports Park.
body to produce abnormally
Los Angeles where he's a pro-
thick and sticky mucus. Lung
duction assistant on the Judge
infections and respiratory failure are con-
Judy and Judge Joe Brown programs.
stant dangers for people with CF.
But Matt's condition worsened. He now
Mart had a mild case. He took lots of
needs to take dozens of capsules every day
medication, but was never hospitalized
and to clear his lungs three times every day,
until he was 18, Kay said. He graduated
from West Bloomfield High School and
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