Shared Stories
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Skyler S. My story is about asthma. When I lived in Washington, I used to get frequent asthma attacks, most often from running or playing too hard, or extreme cold.
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Karla S. Karla was born as a twin in El Salvador in 1989.
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Mary Beth T. This is a message for former smokers who think, like I did all these years, that you beat lung cancer by quitting their nicotine habit.
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Jake P. When I was 15 I started using vape and thc vapor products, around a year later I was noticing a terrible cough which would wake my family up every morning.
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Katie M. I was diagnosed with allergy-induced asthma when I was 8 years old and have suffered symptoms for as long as I can remember.
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Steven B. My permanent residence is in Bonita Springs. Before Hurricane Ian, it was a popular destination across the street from the Gulf.
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William S. I quit smoking in May 2018 and started getting yearly lung cancer screening scans in November 2018; they never showed any problems with my lungs.
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Kay D. I find it hard to believe that complacency has won out. I have lived in NM for 22 years. The biggest problem is that polluted air from Las Cruces and El Paso blow are way.
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R B. I’ve had asthma as a child. I’ve lived in small “towns” which by the most recent census rules are our ally urban areas most of my life except for a few years in elementary in the late 80s and early 90s when we lived in round rock and Austin, TX.
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Debbie S. I was born in 1948 in St Louis, Missouri. I was the fourth child out of 11, nine girls and two boys. Both our parents smoked so all of us we exposed to secondhand smoke from infancy. We also all grew up to become smokers.
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Dona B. Sarcoidosis is genetic, my mother explained. The disease attack your kidneys, liver or lungs and can have skin cysts and rash. Like several first cousins, I was diagnosed in 2011.
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Dolorees D. Hello, my name is Dee. I have permanent blood clots in both my lungs. There is only one cure for my disease and I am not a candidate for the surgery.
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Dominic B. So, like many others, I've experienced what is known as a spontaneous pneumothorax-collapsed lung.
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Erin G. In the spring of 2017, my sister Meghan began having health issues. Meghan was a former Division I athlete who never took a sick day in her professional career, so when she started to have health issues, we were all surprised.
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Ted J. I was hospitalized in 2015 for being unable to walk for more than a few feet without having to stop and catch my breath. I was immediately placed in the cardiac critical care ward with a heart monitor attached 24/7 for 8 days.
