Today’s featured artist is Crissi Brooks with her submission titled! “Turtally Aware”.
Symptoms of PCD start very early in life, usually during the first year, and include:
■■ Neonatal respiratory distress (trouble breathing shortly after birth) in full-term babies, usually requiring oxygen therapy, and often lasting days to weeks
■■ Daily, year-round, nasal congestion
■■ Daily, year-round, wet (mucus-producing) cough
■■ Chronic middle ear fluid and ear infections that can lead to
hearing loss or speech difficulties
■■ Chronic sinus infections
■■ “Sidedness”differences(situsinversustotalisorsitus
ambiguus/heterotaxy), including congenital heart
defects
■■ Male infertility (inability to make a woman pregnant),
since sperm tails use the same genes as motile cilia
■■ Reduced fertility in women (inability to get pregnant)
related to cilia dysfunction in the Fallopian tubes.
~ American Thoracic Society
The PCD Artist Project is a collaborative effort by artist to raise awareness for PCD or primary ciliary dyskinesia and support the PCD Smiles program. Each artist who submitted art work to the project either has PCD or has a PCD friend or family member.
The PCD Artist Project’s 2020 exhibition merchandise ranges from apparel, giftware, home furnishings, and printed products such as posters, prints, wall art, and other items, all created from our exhibition; which can be viewed on PCD Smiles’s website. It is our hope that you support the PCD Smiles program by purchasing exhibition merchandise today.
***All proceeds from the PCD Artist Project go to support PCD Smiles!!!
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