# 57
Brian D. McTear to me
Apr 2, 2009
I like BrianandbobbySpeak.com. I like that!
I had a similar (but very scaled back) idea for a CF specific therapy center. I just know that the best thing for my lungs is when Amy beats on my chest. I have a vest, but I don’t think it’s that effective. It made me wonder what a person does if there’s no one to beat on them? I asked Marianne and she said that insurance won’t cover, so it’d have to be a non-profit funded exclusively by donation. A person to make house calls for physical therapy would be a beautiful thing. Plus it’d be a way for people who might be pretty isolated to see a friendly face twice or three times per week. It’d probably take a lot more than I could pull off, but it’d be great.
I like your idea better, though. I wonder how that stuff comes together? It’d probably have to happen via one or several very wealthy donors along with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. I am sure it’d go best somewhere like Arizona. You’d also have to have really good germ control, but a place like that could be a good research center when it comes to establishing clean practices.
These types of things can happen with a lot of networking, I’d imagine. Did you know Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s son was diagnosed with CF a few years back? I wonder who else that is well known might have CF in their family, etc?
B