Haley's Wildflower Wishes Team is walking for CAH Awareness.

We're walking to raise awareness for Congential Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) -- a rare condition that affects the body's ability to produce cortisol, a hormone essential for handling stress, illness, and everyday life, as well as subsequent complicating conditions like CAH-X, MALS, and SMAS.

Like a dandelion, Haley is brave, strong, and resilient -- growing through every challenge.

Like a wish flower's seeds in the wind, she desires to spread awareness and hope -- reaching others, helping save lives, improving care, easing physical and mental pain and uncertainty, and bringing hope for better care and change in the future.

This cause is deeply personal to us. Haley's journey has shown us how complex and often overlooked these conditions can be -- and why awareness and research matter so much.

If you can't join us for the walk, you can still help by donating through Haley's team page or simply sharing this message to spread awareness.

Whether you walk, donate, or share -- thank you! We are so grateful for your support and compassion.

Below are some facts about CAH and potential implications:

CAH affects about 1 in 10,000-15,000 people, milder forms like NCAH may impact as many as 1 in 1,000 -- and are often missed or diagnosed later. Too many individuals go undiagnosed or not adequatiely treated, sometimes taking years to get answers or proper treatment.

Without proper treatment, CAH can lead to serious complications -- including life-threatening adrenal crisis, severe dehycdration, low blood pressure, and long-term health challenges. Daily life requires medication, stress dosing, and constant awareness, especially during illness, sports, school, and even simple activities which require diligent coordination and communciation between parents, health care professionals, teachers, and coaches.

There can also be more complex connections. CAH-X is extremely rare (seen in a small subset of CAH patients) and involves connecive tissue differences, similar to hypermobile disorders, which may increase the risk of life altering and threatening vascular compresion conditions like MALS and SMAS -- both rare on their own, and even more rare together. Often going undiagnosed and untreated, leading to debilitating effects.