No Contact Sports :(

Today after track practice I watched the soccer game. I like to think I have a normal life, but to be honest I really don't. The fact that I have CF means that I can't play contact sports- I'm stuck with track, swimming, and biking. I'm an average runner (not all that great), a terrible swimmer, and my bike is only for transportation. All I've ever wanted is to be able to at least TRY something like soccer or volleyball. I bet I'd be good at volleyball- I'm really tall. I really shouldn't complain, though. If I had been born 40 or 30 or even 20 years ago, by now I would be dead. As a matter of fact, when I was a baby the doctors said I would only live to be 12 years old because my cystic fibrosis is much worse than other people. Maybe sometime in the near future there will be a cure.... didn't they say there would never be a cure for polio? I'm not betting on it, though. I guess for now I'll just be happy with the fact that I am able to play sports at all.