Historias compartidas
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Gwendolyn W. I am living in low income housing with a disability and I am a single parent. It seems no one who runs our building has any concern about creating a healthy environment.
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G G. Air pollution is a serious health threat.
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Dianna L. This is about my severe asthma and moderate COPD. Next month I will have my annual breathing test and let the pulmonologist tell me what stage I am in. I haven't smoked cigarettes in 10 years!
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Bryan L. On calm, clear winter nights, our town fills with blue smoke from woodstoves and fireplaces. My eyes burn, head aches and I awake with severe congestion. Some years this happens a few times, but this past year it happened for two months straight.
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Brennah R. I'm Brennah and I am a current Oregon Kid Governor Cabinet member. My platform is Air Pollution.
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Rona W. My journey has been one of hope, gratitude, and self-advocacy.
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Isabella C. On my fourteenth birthday, a family friend gifted me a “learn how to knit” set.
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Regina B. I started smoking at 17 and smoked for the next 18 years. I quit in April 2007, at the request of my 12 year old daughter.
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Nancy S. Hearing the word cancer is scary – hearing the diagnosis of lung cancer was terrifying.
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Monique F. It was the summer of 1979. I was 4 years old and my maternal grandfather, daddy as we called him succumbed to his battle with lung cancer.
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Lizzie B. August 2015 changed our lives forever: my mother, Candice Warren, was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.
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Nelson C. My Dad and I lost my mom to lung cancer.
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Alonzita H. On February 12, 2021, I was diagnosed with stage three squamous lung cancer. It impacted my life in many ways.
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Portia B. “Portia, I want to do this.” These were the exact words from my mother (Sharonne L. Lopez) as she handed me the flier from the counter.
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Nancy l. It began when my primary physician ordered a CT scan to determine why I was having pelvic pain.
