Wish

My last couple posts were focused on negative aspects of my CF life. . .so tonight I thought I would focus on a positive or fond memory that having CF gave me.

Make A Wish is an incredible charity. They change lives, they make miracles happen for kids that really need a miracle. I was blessed to have been given a lifetime of happiness by the Make a Wish foundation. I think I have posted about my Make A Wish. . .but I am not sure. It was the single most incredible thing that having CF ever gave me. (CF camp is the 2nd greatest). Without having CF, I would not have the thing which brings me more joy in the world than just about anything else in my life.

I was just about to turn 11 yrs old. I had begged for a Palomino Pony for years. I had a fascination and love for horses that only grew stronger the older I became. My parents struggled to keep food on the table sometimes, so affording a pony for me was impossible. As much as my parents wanted me to have a pony, between raising 4 kids with me having a terminal disease, it was impossible. My mother is a horseman and my grandparents were cattle farmers, so I was exposed to horses and riding my entire childhood.

One night 2 men came to my house and sat me down to talk to me. They simply asked me 'If I could wish for anything I wanted in the world what would it be? I could go anywhere, meet anyone, do anything or have anything I wanted what would I wish for?' I am pretty sure it was less than a millisecond after they had finished asking that I replied "A Palomino Pony!". .. they then told me not very many kids that wish for horses get the approval from their doctors to have one, but they would work on it. When they asked me what my 2nd choice would be, I couldn't answer, my one and only wish was a pony.

Within a few weeks my wish came true. The pony was an 8 yr old bay welsh pony. I named her Penny and apparently she was pregnant, so I was going to be the owner of 2 horses. The colt was a sorrel pony/arabian, I named my new baby horse Princess.

Now 20 years later, we still have Princess, but the amazing thing is my wish for "a palomino pony" was carried out 17 years after I made it. Three years ago Princess had a colt. My beautiful horse Pixydust was born June 2007 and she is as Palomino as they come ~ Miracles happen!

That is the single best thing that CF has given me!

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