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Greg Swain doesn’t look sick. Slender and wiry, he moves with the grace of an athlete or dancer.

Greg Swain doesn’t act sick. An easy, friendly smile lights up his handsome face as he introduces himself and sits, relaxed and comfortable, for an interview.

But Greg Swain is sick. He has cystic fibrosis, a chronic respiratory illness that kills more children and young people each year than any. other inherited disease. _ p is for Greg and others lik$ him that next week’s Walk-A-Thon is being held. Money raised in the Walk-AThon will go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation which supports treatment programs and research to find a cure or control for the disease.

Cystic Fibrosis primarily affects the lungs, heavy congestion builds up blocking air passages. To free the mucous, Greg undergoes first inhalation therapy and then chest therapy. “Three times a day right now,” he noted. Many of those uneducated about the disease have a mental image of burly therapists beating on the I

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