Always in your corner.
On New Year’s Eve 2014, my wife Rebecca went into respiratory failure from cystic fibrosis. Doctors gave her days to weeks. She is still here. Help us fight for a cure, so no one else has to fight this hard.
Thank you. The 2026 Cincinnati Great Strides walk was in May. Gifts are still open.
Three ways to help
Rebecca is still here because of research, care teams, and a corner full of people. You can be one of them.
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More than $140,000
raised for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation since 2013. Gifts are made on the charity’s own secure pages, never on this site.
Our team raises money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, but it isn’t the only place to help. The Joey Fund, the Boomer Esiason Foundation, CFRI, and other CF nonprofits do important work, too.
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Read the book
Lessons from a CF Cornerman: 38 lessons from Rebecca’s illness and lung transplant.
What’s a cornerman?
In the fighting world, the cornerman is the person who sits in your corner between rounds.
A good one knows his fighter: her strengths, her weaknesses, and how to get the best out of her. He sees the fight from an angle she can’t. But there is one thing a cornerman cannot do, and that is fight the fight for her.
I’ve been in Rebecca’s corner since we met at the University of Connecticut in 1998.
“I do not have cystic fibrosis and I cannot take away her pain, so the best I can do is to support her and be in her corner.”From the Preface of Lessons from a CF Cornerman
This week’s lesson
Every day may not be a good day, but recognize that it is good to have that day.