Ep. 7 - James and Christie Fruits interview

Featuring an interview with singer James Fruits and his wife Christie about Cystic Fibrosis and their daughter Mylee, who has CF. Guest host: Darvio "The Kingpin" Morrow from The Outlaws Radio Show. (Original airdate: 5/3/17)

Episode Transcript

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This is Darvill Kingpin maraw from theOutlaws Radio show, and I'm here with
some personal friends of mine who havesome really important things to talk to you
guys about. James and Christy Fruit, welcome to the show. How you
guys doing great? Thanks for havingus. Yeah, thanks for having us.

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Only excited to be here, allright, So let's jump right into
it. I know you guys arehere to talk about cystic fibrosis for people
that don't know, because there's alot of people that really don't have a
lot of information about it. Whatis it? Yeah, great questions.
Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic disease thataffects the pancreas and the lungs. And

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so people with cystic fibrosis, they'vegot all the all the right genetic information
that you and I have, buttheir genetic code for some of the stuff
that affects their pancreas and their lungsis in the wrong order, and so
they don't produce things that thin outthe mucus in their body and specifically in
their lungs, and so it leadsto a lot of issues with lungs,

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and where you and I get aninfection in our lungs and our body kind
of fights to bring it up,and so we when we cough, we're
coughing stuff up. We're getting thatinfection out of our lungs. So people
with cystic fibrosis, they have thisreal thick mucus in their lungs and so
when they get an infection, literallyevery infection can be life threatening, and

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so that's the biggest thing it affects. It also affects the gastro intestinal part
of their body, so they don'tabsorb nutrients like you and I do.
And so a lot of times malnutritioncan be a part of something that people
will cf have to fight. Okay, and is it hereditary? Does it

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just come and no one knows howyou get it? Or like, yeah,
it's a genetic disease. And sothere's nothing you can do to catch
cystic fibrosis or anything. You're bornwith it, and and so there are
tests, there's actually it was justan article Christie and I were reading this
week about a man who is fiftyyears old and just got diagnosedo cystic fibrosis.

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But it's something you have to betested for. So one in every
twenty five to thirty people in theUnited States are carrier of cystic fibrosis.
And so the mother and the fatherboth have to be carriers of CF.
And when both parents are carriers,they have a one and four chance of

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their children, you know, ofeach child having cystic fibrosis. So it's
just kind of a genetic thing.And there's there's UM. It's over a
thousand different strains of cystic fibrosis andwow, so it's kind of hard sometimes
a pinpoint the exact mutation and arewe have a fifteen year old daughter who

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has stic fibrosis, and so that'swhy this is, this disease affects us
personally. And for Miley, shehas UM. Both James and I carry
the same mutation, so we weboth have a copy of the delta five
O eight, and so Miley hasa dual copy of that, which happens
to be the most common form ofcystic fibrosis. And unfortunately that means that

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she will get all of the badstuff that comes with a stick fibrosism.
However, the positive part is thatis the one that they are the closest
to finding a cure for because itis the most common. Okay, okay,
So talk about that experience from apersonal standpoint, What is it like
having having a daughter with CF andwhat do you guys go through as parents

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raising someone with this disease? SoUM, from the get go, from
the time Miley was five weeks old, she would take pinkyreatic enzymes UM on
a spoon with apple sauce um tohelp digest her food. So without those
enzymes, she only absorbs thirty percentof her nutrients. With the enzymes,

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she only absorbs seventy percent of hernutrients, and so she's always running out
a deficit. So weight is alwaysan issue. So Miley is on a
high fat, high protein diet.Even now at fifteen UM, she's currently
is experiencing some weight loss and UM, they want us to up her calor
intake, and so she has afeeding tube, a gtube that sits kind

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of right below her rib cage,and so she gets over half of her
daily caloric needs through her gtube atnight. But currently her oral intake she
drinks heavy whipping cream with coronation insidantbreakfast and that's her drink of choice right
now because it has the most fatand calories, and we live in a
low fat world and a non fatworld, and so trying to find things

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that are high in fat are verydifficult. For that's an interesting point,
right. We go to Starbucks andlike, you know, Starbucks has got
a lot of calories in most oftheir drinks, you know, anyway,
and so she'll order hers but withheavy whipping cream, you know, instead
of milk, and people will youknow, be like so that that's one

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of the things that we kind ofdo for her for her weight. But
since she was little, she doesairway clearance and m It used to be
hand clapping where we would kind ofcut our hand and clap about ten different
spots on her chest, her andher back, and that helps to move
the mucus from the small airways intothe large airways so that she can eventually
cough that out. Um. Sinceshe was four, she's had it's it's

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called the vest, and it's anincredible machine. She looks like she's wearing
a flak jacket and it's it's attachedlike an air compressor and basically it used
frequencies to again do what we weredoing manually, so it helps to move
that mucus from the small airways intothe large airways. Her her brother,
her brother, her younger brother usedto really love using that because if you

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talk while it's on, you know, it's like someone's pounding on your chest
like, and so he loves it. Nobody has to go for a ride
on it, Yeah, but shewhen she is when she is feeling well,
um, she does that twice aday and that takes about fifteen minutes.
She also does a series of inhaledantibiotics and the inhaled um solutions that

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kind of help loosen up that mucus. And so overall she she spends about
forty five minutes twice a day doingsome form of airway clearance. And she
is currently fighting as hard as youcan to stay out of the hospital right
now, and so the doctor suggestedupping her airway clearance to three times a
day, and that just adding thatone more is kind of a pain.

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It cuts into her day and she's, you know, fifteen supersocial, right,
But Miley took it a step furtherand she is doing it five times
a day and because she's very determined, and what that means is she actually
takes a handheld device to school withher, and so she does that at
school twice a day. And soshe blows into this device and it provides

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resistance in her airway that goes backdown into her lungs to loosen up the
mucus from from the walls of herlungs. Yeah, and so so that's
that's one of the biggest things thatwe can do to kind of help keep
her lungs as healthy as possible.She also takes she takes about fifty seven
pills a day and wow, yeah, and so um the best, like

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she's a champ. She fills herown pill containers, she takes care of
all of that. She pops handfulsof pills back at a time. And
my favorite is she she had fourpills lined up on her tongue and she
sneezed, and I was sure thatthey were going to go flying everywhere.
But as soon as she was donesneezing, she opened her mouth and they
were just lined up on her tongue. So this is her life and she

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doesn't know anything differently, and forthat we're we're thankful because we don't get
a lot of resistance from her.But these are all just little measures that
we take um to help keep herhealthy other things. Um, we're super
thankful. We came from Illinois andIllinois has now moved to being smoke free.
Um, but James's family is allin Missouri and there's still quite a

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bit of restaurants. It's I thinkit's based on Missouri. Will ever be
smoked? Right, they're not.It's so weird because we're in Ohio and
it's been like this whatever. Yeah, you just assume that everybody else certainly,
certainly it's VI counting. And sowe were super thankful when we moved
moved to Cleveland she was four andit was a smoke free environment because that's

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one of the other things that irritate. So they have you know, firsthand
smoke is the smoker. Secondhand smokeis the smoke that we would breathe in
as non smokers. And they're eventalking that they're kind of naming it a
third hand smoke. And that thirdhand smoke is the residue that kind of
clings to your clothes and and thingslike that. So if somebody had been

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smoking and they come into a roomand she smells that, that still she
breathes that in that still can bean irritant to her lungs, So we're
very careful about that. At school, she if there are kids who come
and are coughing, because not everybodykeeps their sick kids at home. And
so I have a kid who whohas no immune system basically because she's on
steroids and different medications. Plus sheis super susceptible to colds and viruses and

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things like that. Since people don'tkeep their kids at home and I'm sending
my healthy kid to school, shepicks up that that virus and and what
we can just easily brushed off,she that becomes a lung infection for her.
And so when she's in school,she has to be and she has
to be very aware of you know, who's coughing around her. She asks,

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she has to ask her teachers ifshe can move seats and sit across
the room from the coughing kid.And um, you know, we go
through hand sanitized are quite quite abit too, because that's that's her biggest
protection. And um, but she'sa rock star. She you know,
exercises the best thing for her.This is not this is not the kind
of disease where you you lock yourkid in the house and say they can't
do anything. This is the kindof disease where if she's if she's a

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runner, a soccer player, youknow, that kind of thing, that's
the best exercise for her lungs.So she is a soccer player, she
plays the trumpet, she sings inthe choir, and and dances and loves,
you know, loves to be veryactive, and that's one of the
best things to do that we cando also to keep her healthy well.
Actually brings me to our next question. How is how is she handling all

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of this, How she's keeping herspirits up? You know, she she
goes It has been a tough years. She's been hospitalized three times in the
last nine months, which is nottypical. We actually we went for one
period where she didn't she wasn't hospitalizedfor three whole years. Um. So
this last year has been pretty toughfor her um and and so we went

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in a couple of weeks ago andjust to kind of do a check up,
you see how she's doing, seehow all the measurements are. And
everything was kind of trending downward,except her lung sounded good, which is
a really good thing. But everythingwas kind of trending downward, and the
doctor said, you know, he'slike I one of the things with Miley

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is that she's she's not textbook.If there's textbook, is not her.
She's she's she's unique. She's gonnado it her own way. Um.
But so the doctors are kind ofperplexed with where she's at right now because
she'll go in to the hospital andshe'll jump right up all our you know,
all our vitals and meaning jumping rightup and she does a pulmonary function

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test, and so basically it measureshow much air she's able to pull into
her lungs and then how much airshe's able to expel. Okay, I'm
glad you broke that down because I'man entertainer, so you know, right,
it wasn't familiar. Yeah. Soit's called the PFD, a pulmonary
function test. And so for theaverage person, anything above eighty percent is
good. And so you've got eightyto one hundred percent, and Miley's good

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is about seventy three percent, andm yeah, that's really good. But
that she normally kind of hangs outin the mid sixties as far as her
lung function is concerned. So ifyou think about it, that means she's
playing soccer and and singing in thechoir and blowing her trumpet with sixty percent
lung capacity and wow, that's yeah. And so those are the those are

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the when James talks about things trendingdownward, that's her. Her pulmonary function
is declining and she's she's been aslow as thirty four percent and that's really
low and um so, so we'rethankful we're not at that point. But
what's happening in the hospitals. Wecan get it up to seventy three.
We even got up to seventy nine, but we can't maintain that. And

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the doctors are confused as to whythis is happening that she over over a
twelve week period she'll go from aseventy three to a fifty seven. And
they don't like to see that rapiddecline. That's kind of where she's at.
And so she's been she's been superyou know, when we were at
the doctor's office the last time,doctor said, well we can we don't

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know what's going on. They like, We've talked to the whole team,
and here in Cleveland, I'm reallyproud. We have some of the leading
cystic fibrosis doctors in the whole worldhere in Cleveland. In fact, one
of the doctors who was responsible forfinding the gene that's responsible for cystic fibrosis,

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doctor Mitch Drum, is here inCleveland. And doctor Stern is why
we have cystic fibrosis care in theUnited States, and he's here in Cleveland
as well. So they've got amazingdoctors here in Cleveland for the for the
cystic fibrosis community, and so he'sour doctor. Said, look, I've
going to everybody on the team.Nobody can figure out what's going on.

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And he said, we can hospitalizeyou now because we want to see you
go up, or you can comeback in about three weeks and let's see
where we are. And so weall said, let's, you know,
let's go home. Let's let's let'ssay. It's hard for her. She
broke down on the doctor's office andcried, and but by the time we
walked out, she was ready tofight. She was ready, you know,

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to pick it up. And it'shard when she was little um and
she'd have to be hospitalized, whichshe she was hospitalized basically once a year,
and Um, she would cry becauseshe was so scared. Everything was
scary and having doctors come in andyou never knew what they were going to
do, and and she hated gettingpick lines, and she hated them listening
to her and touching her and youknow, looking at how even and um,

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and it was just because sometimes youknow, they'll come in at three
o'clock in the morning because a residenceis there. It's a teaching hospital.
She goes to university, so they'reall gung host. They'll get on their
shift and come in at three o'clockin the morning to check vitals. Like
we didn't appreciate that so much chic, but but it was. It was
scary. It was scary for her. So and so there were things that

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tests being run and things being donethat that frightened her. And I thought
that that was the hardest part.I thought that um, trying to help
her kind of push through that fearwas the hardest part, and that as
she got older, hospitalizations would beeasier. Unfortunately, I was misguided.
She hospitalizations have only become harder forher because there's the social aspect that I

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didn't take into account. You know, she's fifteen. Now she's missing this
year alone at school. She's missedseven weeks of school. And that's that's
hard. She's missing, she's missingbeing with her friends. She's missing you
know, all the everybody else's lifegoes on, but hers is at a
stand. She missed a band tripdown to ou you know, the rest

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of the the band went down there. And that kind of thing is really
hard, soccer games, and itdoes. But I will say she is
surrounded by an incredible group of friends. She has some some friends, you
know, and thankfully for technology,you know, they face time, they
text, they you know, she'seven skyped into a class before. And
yeah, and so that I mean, and her her teachers in the school

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are are phenomenal at it. Butbut it's hard, and she she is.
We have three children, she's atwin and our youngest son is adopted,
and so she is the only onewho has to stick fibrosis. And
we get the question quite a bitlike why why me? Why? Why
am I the only one who hasthis? And that's those are some of

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the tough, tough questions. Andwe've had a lot of a lot of
tough questions and a lot of toughanswers. We've had to give her.
The current life expectancy for someone sisticfibrosis is only thirty seven years old.
Wow. And you know, I'ma forty two year old mom of three,
and I think thirty seven is notenough time. It's it's it's not
enough time for me to have withher, but it's not enough time for

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her her to live and um,and she's aware of this, and that's
also a hard conversation to have.And but but I'll tell you that that
kid's got more spunk and more fightin her than anybody I've ever met.
So so these these moments of whyme and woe is me are very short
lived, and she's she's to dothem. She deserves to have those moments.

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But but she she rallies back,and she she's ready to dig deep
and and put in the hard workthat it takes. And but we're super
thankful for the friends that she has, who who kind of she has.
She has a really good friend,one of her best friends and Miley's Miley
sometimes doesn't want to eat because she'snot hungry, and he's on her right

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now. He's like, Miley,you have to eat this and and so
kind of it's kind of a teameffort for all of us, it is.
And she she went over to herfriend's house this Sunday afternoon, and
so we packed up her vest.You know, this is a big old
duffle bag and packed it up.And her friends don't make her feel you
know, an they don't give hera hard time about it. They don't

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even feel bad about it. They'relike, no, Miley, we get
you know. They were out outsideplay and they're like, hey, Miley,
we got to go in this timeto do your treatment. Yeah,
we got to do your chess percussion. And so they'll sit with her while
she's doing it, and and soshe's got a great support system around her.
But she definitely she has her moments, you know, where she just
breaks down. I think, well, we all do at different times,

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thankfully, at different times, becauseif it all happened at once, it
would just be a high it is. And even even her brothers at different
times get you know, get emotionalabout it when she's hospitalized for a long
period of time when she's first hospitalized. But um, but we we know
we're all in this fight and it'sa long term fight and and thankfully,

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we're so encouraged by all the hope. When we were when Miley was first
diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, she's fiveweeks old. They took us in this
little room at the hospital. Shehad been at the hospital for five weeks.
We didn't know what was going on, why she wasn't gaining any weight,
and and she'd had a surgery onher on to remove an obstructive part

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of her bowl, and we justwe wanted an answer. So finally we
got the diagnosis she had cystic fibrosis. They called us, they said come
in immediately, and we were aboutan hour and fifteen minutes from the hospital,
and so he drove in, satdown in this little white room with
a ton of people in it,and they just unloaded information on as it

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was, it was just like totallyoverwhelming. And then they told me then
they took my other baby, becauseMiley is a twin, and said,
hey, we need to test himnowsis fibrosis. And I was it was
it was about more than I canhandle, but they through those first few
hours. But even even with allthat overwhelming from they said the life expectancy
in the last ten years had doubled, and so prior to that it had

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been the life expectancy had been likenineteen years old, and so they said
it had doubled. That we're comingup with so many different treatments, we're
so close to a cure, andthis boggles my mind. They're like,
we know what's wrong with the genesand they're just in the wrong order.
So we just have to figure outhow to send messenger jeans in there to
put everything back in the right order. And I'm like, what, And

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that was fifteen years ago, right, And they've made so much progress toward
different ways to actually find a curethat that we're so hopeful. We just
need to we need to keep heras healthy as she can until they find
that cure, so that she's oneof the first in line. You know
that they're willing to say, yes, let's try it out on you.

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And so many advancements, even inthe last three years, there have been
different treatments that they aren't cures,but they've come out, but they treat
the underlying, the underlying cause,rather than just symptoms. Rather than just
fighting infections, they're treating the underlyingcause of it, and so it's it's
we've always been encouraged by the hopeof the research. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

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actually is one of the leading nonprofitfoundations because of how they're doing their fundraising
and how they're doing their research thatthey've become a model for other especially medically
related nonprofits, and how they runtheir organization, how they're doing their research.
It's a it's amazing. She wasIn January of twenty sixteen, Miley

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started on a medication that is oneof the first for her mutation, one
of the first drugs to, likeJames said, to attack the cause of
systic fibrosi. It's not just theeffects of it. And unfortunately Miley isn't
responding to that medication. But thegreat news is is that there there are

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more drugs coming down the pipeline,like there. They have a few that
they're working on now that they're intrial. And so there's so so incredibly
hopeful that fifteen years ago they toldus there will be a cure in her
lifetime and here we are fifteen yearsin and the cure is within reach.
But that's why we're so desperate toraise money and fundraise for a cure and

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that one of the great things aboutthe Cystic fibas Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is that
ninety cents on the dollar goes straighttowards research, and so that as we
are currently in the heart of fundraisingseason for cystic fibrosis, it's like I
can tell you that ninety percent ofthat goes straight towards research and straight towards

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trying to find a cure. Absolutelydefinitely among the highest you'll find in nonprofits.
Right, talk about the CF Walk. What is the CF Walk?
Yeah, So every year the CysticFibrosis Foundation that there are different chapters in
each state and all across the nation. Their biggest fundraiser. They have fundraisers
year round. They have a wineOpener event, they have a bicycle event.

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Yeah, they have a wine openYeah, they have they have a
wine opener event, yeah, whichis really upscale. I actually I DJ
for part of that this last year. Um they had it over at um
uh the Ril Center, Wow Cleveland. Yeah, a chef's fantasy gala,

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like black tie events like yeah,like nick names like Michael Simon and different
people come on. But but theirbiggest fundraiser is what's called Great Strides and
that is the Cistic Fibrosis Walk thatthey have each year, and uh in
the Cleveland area. I think thereare probably five of them in different locations

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down in Akron and Cleveland on otherplaces as well. And so the one
that we participated in is at theCleveland Zoo and it's an awesome thing.
And so for the last three years, I think Miley's team it's called Miley's
Miles of Smiles that started from whenshe was when she's a little girl.

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So you've got these teal t shirts, you know, with a kind of
a caricature of Miley on him anda two two. She started wearing a
tutu at the walk every year andfifteen still wears a two two. And
but so we'll have this huge seaof people. We usually have about eighty
people that walk with us, fundraisewith us. We've been able to raise
just our team has been able toraise over twelve thousand dollars just because people

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are crazy every year. Yeah,just because people are crazy generous and they
want to see a cure for Mileyand for others with cystic fibrosis. And
so Cleveland's Walk, I believe raisesover two hundred just a Zoo Walk at
the Zoo raises around two hundred thousanddollars or more just at that walk,

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because they have teams that do thisyear round and raise twenty five thirty thousand
dollars and they are also smaller teamsare just starting out that they raise,
you know, five hundred dollars,a thousand dollars, and so everybody contributes
together, so you raise a lotof money, which is awesome, but
it's also for Miley. It's theone day of the year where she feels
celebrated because it's cystic fibrosis and everybodyis there and there's so much hope because

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we talk about how close we areto the cure, talk about how,
you know, raising a quarter milliondollars towards research for a cure, and
so we gather all our team aroundand take a big team picture. Then
we gather everybody around and we havea few people from our church pray for
Miley and pray for healing and prayfor good health and pray for a cure

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for CF. And so it's anawesome day just for our family. It's
a crazy emotional day because there's teamsthere also that are walking in memory of
you know, of loved ones thatthey've lost fibrosis. I first walk at
the zoo was so emotional for me. And I was standing at the front
entrance kind of watching people come inand about at different times, about five

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different girls. They're probably between theages of fifteen to twenty, and every
last one of them had an oxygentank with them and somewhere in wheelchairs.
And all I could do is justsit there and cry, thinking, this
is my daughter's future, this isthis is what is going to become.
And there in the second year,there was a speaker and she was a

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woman in her late thirties and talkingabout having a double lung transplant, talking
about having cystic fibrosis related diabetes,talking about her struggles with infertility but still
becoming a mother, and all Ikept hearing now it was it was a
message of hope. Here she wassaying, here I am still standing.

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But all I heard was what ourfuture was going to be. And super
emotional and really hard to hear someof that stuff. But but on the
other end of it is, youknow, looking over at my daughter who's
dancing with her friends, and completelysoaking up about the fact that the whole
day is about her, and she'sbeing celebrated, right. So although it's

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hard, it's it's also emotional inthe sense that, man, we had
friends who instead of instead of gettingwedding presents at their wedding reception, ask
for donations for the Sister Fibrosis Foundation. And that's very humbling to know that
there are people who love my daughterenough to forego something for themselves and to

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ask that of their their friends.And we had another another friend who just
kind of an anonymous stone or twoyears in a row, gave us over
eight thousand dollars and yeah, andso so, and this is not even
somebody that I would consider like aclose like a close personal friend, but
more of just kind of a friendwho's on just on the outskirts of that
that inner circle, you know,and and somebody who's just like, I

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have the money and I'll help.And so it's very very humbling for us.
And and so that has become aday of celebration. It does become
a day, a day of hope. And the family that you know,
drive from out of state to comeand be part of it, and it's
it's always a big weekend for us. So if people want to get involved,
how do they do that? Yeah, you can. If you want

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to donate to Miley's team, youcan go to Miley Fruits dot com m
y l Efruits dot com and that'lltake you to our fundraising page for her
team, and you can sign upto form your own team there through different
links, but it'll all be there, but you'll also be able to read
a little bit more about cystic fibrosisand the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. You can

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see a picture of Miley there becausesometimes it is helpful to put a face
this is Oh yeah, absolutely,it's some pictures taken a Miley last summer
when she had part of her hairwas dyed purple because purple's the color associ
when that was done, purple isthe color associated with cystic fibrosis. And
so she's got her hair dyed purpleagain this year for the walk and one

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of the one of the pictures showsher what she calls her battle scars,
So it shows the scar from hersurgery when she had part of the her
intestines removed the block edge and showsher G tube and it shows her insulin
pump and all those things that sheshe forever hid from from the world,
like nobody could see those. Andthis past summer, she she asked if

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she could wear a bikini, andwell, you know, when you gotta
At the time, she was fourteen, It's like, I don't know about
that. And she's like, Mom, I want to embrace my scars and
I don't care who sees them.I was like, well, then,
how are you saying no to that? Just don't be any near any boys.
It's kind of when it came downto. But we did have some
pictures taken of her scars and andshe wears them. She wears them probably
and she's like, they're part ofwho I am am and said even just

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that maturity and and so one ofthose pictures will be posted on the Miley
Frutz dot com page. Okay,absolutely, and one more time, give
people that website, Miley fruits dotcom, m y L e E Fruits
dot com. Okay, Now,I would be remiss if I let you
guys go without plugging the fact thatyou are an artist and you have a

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due song that you that I believeyou just debuted. What is it?
Yeah, so actually I have atitle. No, I don't know Okay,
so struggling. I am. I'ma musician. I love, I
love. I went to college tostudy vocal performance, but I play a
little bit everything on the instruments.He's really good too, thank you,

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thank you. Um and recorded justa few songs, but never really written
anything on my own. And um, I work at a church full time
doing music and graphics and video,and uh so lead up to Eastern Weekend,
I just kind of had an ideacome in and so just kind of
sat down and and and it kindof it kind of played out really easily.

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A friend of mine, George Chase, I was playing in the band
with us the weekend after Easter,kind of helped me, help me put
it all together and was really encouragingto me. And so I wrote the
song and I was like, what'sthe title? And so who who knew
the title would have been the hardestpart to come up. But anyway,
for right now, we're going withyou Are a song called you Are,

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and uh so, yeah, wewe just just rolled it out at our
church. Okay, all right,So we've been singing for a couple weeks
at our church and I hope toget in the studio sometime in the next
couple of weeks and U record itand roll it out, all right,
and right now you also have asong that's already out called Everything Little drummer

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Boy, Yes, and a LittleDrummer Boy, and you can get those.
We'll probably play a clip of everythingon the on the way to break.
Um. You can get those atiTunes, Amazon, all the places,
right ye, all right, somake sure you guys go out and
get that. Like I said,we'll play a piece of Everything on the
way to the Break. But thankyou so much for joining us on the
show, and make sure you guysgo out and support the cf Walk and

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Morley Fruits. Stay tuned. We'llbe right back, fun and speak to
I want you. I need tohere. Hey everybody, it's your host,

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Alex. It's None from Take twotelling you Take two is now an
itune, So pick up your Appleand subscribe. Welcome back to Take two.
This is Darvio to Kempin Marrow fromthe Outlaws Radio Show. I want
to thank Christie and James Fruits onceagain for joining us on the show,

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and make sure that you go toMiley Fruits dot com. That's Miley Fruits
dot com. And get more informationabout the Cfwalk and donate and do all
of that good stuff to help finda cure for the disease. All right,
we'll see you next time. Peace. The FCB Radio Network first class broadcasting worldwide