About Amy

Amy Miller is a nineteen-year-old girl who has cystic fibrosis. Amy is the daughter of Peggy Miller and the late Clarence “Shorty” Miller, and the sister of Al Miller.  Amy was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the late age of thirteen.  Although this news was devastating to Amy and her family, it did not dampen her spirits.  She lives every day to the fullest and keeps a positive attitude.

Amy graduated from Delone High School in 2008.  She attended a local community college.  Due to illness and hospitalizations, Amy was unable to attend a four-year college/university.  Amy is now a certified phlebotomist and currently works for the Hanover Hospital.

In her spare time, Amy enjoys canoeing, riding motorcycles, and hanging out with friends.  She loves being outdoors and spending a lot of time with her family. Amy loves animals and has three cats and a dog; she also enjoys traveling and watching scary movies. Cystic Fibrosis has forced her to limit many of her physical activities and has affected her endurance, but it has not dampened her spirits. Amy says most of the time she tries to ignore the fact that she has the disease.

Amy is also a Make-A-Wish child and in 2008 her wish to travel to Hawaii was finally granted. Her wish was postponed on several occasions due to her health and almost didn’t happen. She enjoyed the time spent in Hawaii hiking through a rain forest, swimming with sea turtles and attending a Hawaiian luau. She also took time to visit the Pearl Harbor memorial site and was very impacted by the austerity of this site.

Amy has had to overcome many hardships with her CF, although you’d never know it by looking at her.  Her daily routine includes many hours of respiratory therapy, countless medicines and intravenous injections. She has frequent hospitalizations and is attended by many different specialty physicians. Yet, she is always smiling and has an uplifting spirit. She is a strong-willed and determined young lady who is always thinking of others, and her outlook for the future is very positive. As she told her classmates in a note, you must “live with what life gives you and go on.”

There is currently no cure for this disease, so we are holding this event to raise money for cystic fibrosis research.

Like Amy, we are not letting the reality of this disease shake our will, so we have created this fundraising event to be a celebration of food, family, and fun! Please join us in our efforts to make CF stand for Cure Found.