Speaker: Hope
Tell us a little bit about yourself
Hope: My name is Hope. I'm a 23 year old college student. Some of my interests involve things like learning about psychology and the things that affect people in their everyday lives and things and things like other things marvel and superheroes and stuff. I like reading and things.
Tell us about your diagnosis
Hope: So I've always known that there was something going on with me because when I was younger I couldn't do a lot of things. I couldn't even go up the stairs by myself without being out of breath. I was always tired, never able to go run around with my siblings and do things. But it took a while to get diagnosed because of a lot of times people didn't listen and they said you'll grow out of it or it's just different things. But when I did get diagnosed that they told me that it had been an ongoing problem for a while and, it had affected a lot of things but it wasn't very easy to get to the place to get it.
How has your life changed since your diagnosis?
Hope: It's changed for the better for my diagnosis because I can now do things like I went on the food drive for my church and it didn't wipe me out. I was able to even enjoy going to the after party and have fun. I don't always have to think about. Is this gonna take all my energy before I do things and I can start doing things I enjoy doing. I haven't been able to for a while and like at church I'm able to stand during the whole time of singing and sing and people have even told me that they can hear me and it's such a beautiful voice, which is something I haven't been able to do for a very long time, which is very nice for me.
How has Best Care impacted your life?
Hope: Best Care has affected my life for the better because my respiratory therapist has helped me, she taught me how to explain things. So I understood what was going on and then could better react from there. And she gave me my inhaler and that has really impacted and helped my life immensely and pretty much everything I do. And it's just been a benefit to my every day and it helped me a lot.
Do you have a message for others about the Best Care program?
Hope: The message I would have for other doctors is that Best Care is very good for the patient. It's very good for people to be able to have the care they need. And the people who understand and can explain it to them as well as to keep the funding going for it. Because if you, if it's not provided, then it can't help people and then people can't live their best life.
