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Posted by LINDA CHION KENNEY (From Oct. 27, 2007 event): Proceeds from the Oct. 27 "Be 4 B" fundraiser at the Winthrop Pole Barn benefitted Bloomingdale High School student Brett Reed, who has a degenerative condition that takes away motor and sensory coordination. The Family Fun Fall Festival raised money for aquatic thearpy to keep his muscles loose.
Carol Reed with her son, Brett, a student at Bloomingdale High School. The Oct. 27 fundraiser helped secure for Brett aquatic therapy at the Brandon Sports & Aquatic Center through True Blue Therapy. Reed has Friedreich's Ataxia, a rare and degenerative disease that rapidly takes away motor and sensory coordination. The aquatic therapy, "helps him to have his muscles a little looser so he's not so stiff," said Carol Reed. "He's very much affected from the waist down. It doesn't slow him down any, though. He's everywhere in that wheelchair, but we need to keep his muscles as loose as possible."
Carol Reed with her son, Brett, a student at Bloomingdale High School. The Oct. 27 fundraiser helped secure for Brett aquatic therapy at the Brandon Sports & Aquatic Center through True Blue Therapy. Reed has Friedreich's Ataxia, a rare and degenerative disease that rapidly takes away motor and sensory coordination. The aquatic therapy, "helps him to have his muscles a little looser so he's not so stiff," said Carol Reed. "He's very much affected from the waist down. It doesn't slow him down any, though. He's everywhere in that wheelchair, but we need to keep his muscles as loose as possible."
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