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CHAPEL HILL -- Jazmine Torrain is your typical preschooler in many ways. She enjoys a good tea party, loves to put together puzzles, is a pretty good artist and of course is a daddy's girl. Though she appears to be a healthy child, Jazmine suffers from cystic fibrosis.

"It was about six months after her birth, she developed a cough and we kept going back to the doctor,” her father Maj. J.T. Torrain said. She got put in the hospital in Tallahassee. It was about two weeks in Tallahassee then she was transferred to Gainsville, Fla., where she was diagnosed there."

Cysitic fibrosis is a genetic disorder that affects the secretory glands, including the glands that produce sweat and mucus.

"Typically, the children have nasal congestion, cough a lot,” explained Dr. Marianne Muhlebach, of UNC Children’s Hospital. “They have frequent pneumonias, and a large number of children have a problem growing.”

After her CF diagnosis, doctors were able to control her illness for about two years. During this time, the family moved to the Midwest, but after the move, her CF flared up again.

"We went from a really warm climate to a really cold winter, and from there she caught a cold, what we thought was a cold, and after that it was hard to keep the bacterias down so we had to do a hospitalization to fight it," her mother Dawn Torrain said.

When it was time for the family to be transferred to a new military base, the Army actually picked Fort Bragg because of the health care opportunities for her at UNC Children's Hospital.

"I am definitely relieved that UNC is right up the road and they have a good team there that will take care of her and get her all fixed up," Maj. Torrain said.