Austin, Karla Mae, and Emmett toured the Mississippi River area over Memorial Day, 2010. We traveled from Dubuque to La Crosse, WI.
AustinElling.us chronicles the family life of Austin and Karla Mae Elling. Both having somewhat rare and challenging health obstacles at a fairly young age we decided to talk about our issues in the hopes of helping others facing the same issues. Throughout this site Austin catalogs his health issues: testicular cancer and CPT Deficiency. Karla Mae chronicles her battles with neurally mediated syncope and having a degenerative knee joints and having a double knee replacement in her early 30s. Our health and life experiences have helped shape the way I live and look upon life, thus we have adopted the motto Giving Up is Not an Option. We try hard to live by this motto in both our personal and professional lives. We have found perseverance, hope, faith, and attitude make all the difference and hope the information contained here will help others.