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And he took portable was in town recently tanks to school. from the Cystic Fibrosis Heart/lung trans- Foundation (CFF) head- plants allowed David to quarters in Bethesda, Md. graduate high school "The more exercise and attend college. But they get, the better off when his body rejected they are," Greenberg the transplants, he died says. "Whether it's play- at age 21. ing a wind instrument Dr. Simon has CF or swimming, anything patients call Levine for that helps expand the reassurance that they lungs is beneficial. It's a can live into adulthood. very complicated dis- But they rarely meet. "Mark is not that unusu- ease." "We try to avoid al," says Dr. Richard In addition, CF contact between people Simon. "People are living patients are always on with CF because it was longer and healthier." antibiotics, not just in found that CF patients flu season, she says. could easily share differ- "Because once they get a bug, it's ent strains of bacteria with each other," harder for them to get rid of it." Levine says. "If CF patients do hang out Greenberg, who is CFF senior direc- together, then there are 'rules' to obey, tor of major gifts, speaks from experi- like we shouldn't sit next to or directly ence. She has raised a son with cystic across from each other." fibrosis, who at age 36 is recovering Still, Levine is often the face of CF from a lung transplant. at local Cystic Fibrosis Foundation "For the first 20 years of Mitchell's fundraisers. life, there was really no hope she says. His advice to parents who have a In the past, few of CF's victims child with cystic fibrosis is "be open lived to adulthood. But new drugs, and help fund a cure. virtually all of them the result of the "My parents never kept it a secret:' foundation's partnerships with phar- he says. "We were always doing fund- maceutical companies, now relieve raisers. Try to train your kids to be symptoms, allowing more sufferers to med-compliant [take their medicines] live a more normal, longer life until a and to be independent. It's tough for cure is found. parents to let go!' Levine and his wife Joelle, a licensed New Treatment professional counselor whom he Mark Levine, 39, has just taken part met on J-Date, and their children, in a clinical trial for a drug that up to Brooke, 14, and Adam, 12, belong to now has been only administered intra- Congregation Shir Shalom in West venously. (He has scars on his arms Bloomfield. ❑ from all the needles he's endured.) The trial tests an inhaled version For more information, contact Pam Ogg, which, along with being easier to take, executive director of the Metropolitan is being evaluated for its speed and Detroit-Northwest Ohio Chapter of the effectiveness. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, (248) 269- These drugs weren't available for his 8759, or go to www.cff.org.