• Our Mission

    Our Mission

    Our mission at PCD Smiles is to bring smiles to hospitalized primary ciliary dyskinesia, no mater their age; through the gift of a cheer package. Currently serving only The United States and Canada.
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  • Request Cheer Package

    Request Cheer Package

    Know of a hospitalized primary ciliary dyskinesia patient? Please visit our “Request a Cheer Package” link and fill out our secured form to submit them for a cheer package today!
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  • Donations

    Donations

    Our cheer package program runs on donations. To see how you can help PCD Smiles, visit our donations section today!
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  • The PCD Artist Project is a collaborative effort by artist to raise awareness for PCD & support the PCD Smiles cheer package program. Visit our exhibits today!
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  • just say NO, Buffets & Food Boards; a patient’s perspective

    just say NO, Buffets & Food Boards; a patient’s perspective

    Written by PCD Smiles on December 06, 2023. Posted in Topic Thursday

    A patient’s perspective from our Founder: Well you all know me and know I like to talk about the little know areas of PCD life, like this new spin on buffet type meals; food boards. For most people...
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  • Flying with PCD

    Flying with PCD

    Written by PCD Smiles on October 12, 2023. Posted in Topic Thursday

    A few years during a family medical crisis involving my father I went a jumped on the first plane out of Minniapolis bound for my home state of Ohio. I wasn’t actively sick with and infection, but...
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  • Caregiving

    Caregiving

    Written by PCD Smiles on October 06, 2023. Posted in Topic Thursday

    There are many layers to caregiving when it involves a person who has primary ciliary dyskinesia. These layers peel back and change on the daily sometimes. It is definitely a strange onion to peel...
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  • Nothing is Sacred when you have PCD

    Nothing is Sacred when you have PCD

    Written by PCD Smiles on September 17, 2023. Posted in Topic Thursday

    There are a lots of things that I’ve had to get used to as I grew up doing life with PCD. One of those things was learning that unlike most others I had no privacy. I mean absolutely none...
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Written by PCD Smiles on . Posted in October Trivia.

October is PCD Awareness Month!

The answer to this morning’s daily PCD trivia question is...

Thank you for playing along, and sharing each question to your timeline to help spread PCD awareness. PCD awareness begins with each of us! We will be taking a short break with our weekly trivia questions. But, we hope to see you for Tuesday Trivia each week beginning the first week in 2022. Until then, Turtle On!#OctoberIsPCDawarenessMonth

Join our Facebook group Turtle Talk Café today, click here.

We have several ways that you can donate to PCD Smiles;

- Visit Smile E. Turtle's Amazon Wishlist; https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/KNO9BAJR74I4?ref_=wl_share

- For more information on how you can donate, please visit our "Donation" page to check out our "Do & Don't policies at; http://www.pcdsmiles.com/support-pcdsmiles/donations2

- To sponsor a PCD Smiles Cheer-box today!

https://store.pcdstyle.com/21-donations

- To shop for your “Official” turtle care ribbon gear today!

www.pcdstyle.com

or

https://www.smileecove.com/stores/cove

Thank you for your consideration!

#PCDsmiles  #PCDstyle  #PCDsmilesCookbook  #PrimaryCiliaryDyskinesia  #SmileEcove  #TurtleTalk  #TurtleTalkCafe  #PCD

#PCDawareness to help find a #cure4PCD!

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Written by PCD Smiles on . Posted in October Trivia.

October is PCD Awareness Month!

Thank you for joining us each day in October for our daily PCD trivia question! The answer to today’s question will be posted this evening on PCD Smiles’s website by 9:00pm CST.

Thank you for playing along, and sharing each question to your timeline to help spread PCD awareness. PCD awareness begins with each of us! We will be taking a short break with our weekly trivia questions. But, we hope to see you for Tuesday Trivia each week beginning the first week in 2022. Until then, Turtle On!

#OctoberIsPCDawarenessMonth

Join our Facebook group Turtle Talk Café today, click here.

We have several ways that you can donate to PCD Smiles;

- Visit Smile E. Turtle's Amazon Wishlist; https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/KNO9BAJR74I4?ref_=wl_share

- For more information on how you can donate, please visit our "Donation" page to check out our "Do & Don't policies at; http://www.pcdsmiles.com/support-pcdsmiles/donations2

- To sponsor a PCD Smiles Cheer-box today!

https://store.pcdstyle.com/21-donations

- To shop for your “Official” turtle care ribbon gear today!

www.pcdstyle.com

or

https://www.smileecove.com/stores/cove

Thank you for your consideration!

#PCDsmiles  #PCDstyle  #PCDsmilesCookbook  #PrimaryCiliaryDyskinesia  #SmileEcove  #TurtleTalk  #TurtleTalkCafe  #PCD

#PCDawareness to help find a #cure4PCD!

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Written by PCD Smiles on . Posted in October Trivia.

October is PCD Awareness Month!

The answer to this morning’s daily PCD trivia question is...

Be sure to check out our page tomorrow morning for more PCD trivia! #OctoberIsPCDawarenessMonth

Join our Facebook group Turtle Talk Café today, click here.

We have several ways that you can donate to PCD Smiles;

- Visit Smile E. Turtle's Amazon Wishlist; https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/KNO9BAJR74I4?ref_=wl_share

- For more information on how you can donate, please visit our "Donation" page to check out our "Do & Don't policies at; http://www.pcdsmiles.com/support-pcdsmiles/donations2

- To sponsor a PCD Smiles Cheer-box today!

https://store.pcdstyle.com/21-donations

- To shop for your “Official” turtle care ribbon gear today!

www.pcdstyle.com

or

https://www.smileecove.com/stores/cove

Thank you for your consideration!

#PCDsmiles  #PCDstyle  #PCDsmilesCookbook  #PrimaryCiliaryDyskinesia  #SmileEcove  #TurtleTalk  #TurtleTalkCafe  #PCD

#PCDawareness to help find a #cure4PCD!

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Written by PCD Smiles on . Posted in October Trivia.

October is PCD Awareness Month!

Please join us each day in October for our daily PCD trivia question. The answer to the daily question will be posted each evening on PCD Smiles’s website at 9:00pm CST.

We hope that you play along, and share each question to your timeline to help spread PCD awareness. PCD awareness begins with each of us! #OctoberIsPCDawarenessMonth

Join our Facebook group Turtle Talk Café today, click here.

We have several ways that you can donate to PCD Smiles;

- Visit Smile E. Turtle's Amazon Wishlist; https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/KNO9BAJR74I4?ref_=wl_share

- For more information on how you can donate, please visit our "Donation" page to check out our "Do & Don't policies at; http://www.pcdsmiles.com/support-pcdsmiles/donations2

- To sponsor a PCD Smiles Cheer-box today!

https://store.pcdstyle.com/21-donations

- To shop for your “Official” turtle care ribbon gear today!

www.pcdstyle.com

or

https://www.smileecove.com/stores/cove

Thank you for your consideration!

#PCDsmiles  #PCDstyle  #PCDsmilesCookbook  #PrimaryCiliaryDyskinesia  #SmileEcove  #TurtleTalk  #TurtleTalkCafe  #PCD

#PCDawareness to help find a #cure4PCD!

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Written by PCD Smiles on . Posted in October Trivia.

October is PCD Awareness Month!

The answer to this morning’s daily PCD trivia question is...

Be sure to check out our page tomorrow morning for more PCD trivia! #OctoberIsPCDawarenessMonth

Join our Facebook group Turtle Talk Café today, click here.

We have several ways that you can donate to PCD Smiles;

- Visit Smile E. Turtle's Amazon Wishlist; https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/KNO9BAJR74I4?ref_=wl_share

- For more information on how you can donate, please visit our "Donation" page to check out our "Do & Don't policies at; http://www.pcdsmiles.com/support-pcdsmiles/donations2

- To sponsor a PCD Smiles Cheer-box today!

https://store.pcdstyle.com/21-donations

- To shop for your “Official” turtle care ribbon gear today!

www.pcdstyle.com

or

https://www.smileecove.com/stores/cove

Thank you for your consideration!

#PCDsmiles  #PCDstyle  #PCDsmilesCookbook  #PrimaryCiliaryDyskinesia  #SmileEcove  #TurtleTalk  #TurtleTalkCafe  #PCD

#PCDawareness to help find a #cure4PCD!

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Written by PCD Smiles on May 26, 2022. Posted in Topic Thursday

That’s is PCD for you. After five months of trying to fight this pseudomonas pneumonia at home,...
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