{"id":647,"date":"2013-05-15T23:20:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T23:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canaaf.org\/?p=647"},"modified":"2021-11-25T18:50:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T18:50:02","slug":"predictable-for-an-unpredictable-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canaaf.org\/predictable-for-an-unpredictable-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Predictable for an Unpredictable Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canaaf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Predictable-or-an-Unpredictable-Disease.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-648 alignleft lazyload\" title=\"Predictable-or-an-Unpredictable-Disease\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.canaaf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Predictable-or-an-Unpredictable-Disease.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"304\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 289px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 289\/304;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-648 alignleft\" title=\"Predictable-or-an-Unpredictable-Disease\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canaaf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Predictable-or-an-Unpredictable-Disease.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"304\" \/><\/noscript><\/a>Saturday April 27th\u2019s CANAAF Success Session was another positive morning!\u00a0 We started off with thirty minutes of motivational and inspirational speeches.\u00a0 Ashlyn and Cheyenne, both junior students from the Durham District School Board, brought their strength, knowledge and insights speaking about alopecia from their childhood perspectives.\u00a0 Ashlyn shared the good and the bad about living with alopecia universalis and Cheyenne spoke about her understanding of alopecia from a sibling perspective.\u00a0 Both girls did a fabulous job and \u201cstole the hearts\u201d of our viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Krystyna, our jet setter teen who could not be with us due to a school trip to New York City, videotaped her speech for all to hear.\u00a0 \u201cPredictable for an Unpredictable disease\u201d is how she defined her experience with the Canadian Alopecia Areata Foundation.\u00a0 Amanda shared how CANAAF has given her strength to deal with her hair loss.\u00a0 While Amanda\u2019s hair has spontaneously regrown, she continues to give her time to the foundation to help others who are struggling with this life altering disease.\u00a0 Tara, one of our board of directors and mother of a 10 year old, touched us as she mentioned how CANAAF provided her family with the emotional support and strength they needed to cope.\u00a0 To end, Debbie, our CANAAF Treasurer, informed our participants about the Heads Up Fund whereby CANAAF will provide up to $500 of financial assistance to those in need of a hair prosthesis.\u00a0 For more information please email info@canaaf.org<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing bald is in\u201d.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Ashton told the kids at the Kids Club.\u00a0 Ashton spoke of his life and growing up with this rare condition.\u00a0 He inspired the kids and teens and encouraged them to believe in themselves and to choose friends who will encourage and motivate them to be all they can be!\u00a0 Following Ashton\u2019s motivational speech to our Kids Club, Ashton and his Red Dawn martial arts demo team put on an incredible show that awed us all!\u00a0 They were followed by X Limit Entertainment Inc and Justin, one of our CANAAF\/X Limit teens, continued to inspire us!\u00a0 Our Kids Club ended their session with their own private martial arts lesson!<\/p>\n<p>CANAAF continues to expand and grow.\u00a0 We welcomed 5 new families as well as two families who flew to Toronto just to be with us.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the CANAAF board of directors and our CANAAF participants we would like to give an appreciative thanks to all who made our day a great success!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday April 27th\u2019s CANAAF Success Session was another positive morning!\u00a0 We started off with thirty minutes of motivational and inspirational speeches.\u00a0 Ashlyn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awareness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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