ARDS Awareness Products Rock!
http://ardsusa.org/ARDS-Awareness.htm Check them out. Finally they have arrived and hopefully they will provoke conversation and some awareness!
posted by ARDS Survivor @ 4:54 PM
ARDS Blog
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) affects over 150,000 people in the United States each year with half of those people dying from this terrible syndrome. Worldwide, the numbers abound. Share your thoughts with us on a more personal level.
About Me
- Name: ARDS Survivor
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
At the age of thirty three, my life was changed in ways that I could not imagine. Once a overwhelmed and extremely stressed out attorney, I suddenly found myself critically ill with acute respiratory distress syndrome. The entire summer of 1995, I spent in the hospital, on a vent, fighting for my life. After recoverying, against all odds, my life was forever changed. Now, I work part time and dedicate myself to doing something for others who have had to endrue the life changing affects from ARDS. "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!"
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Monday, April 11, 2005
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2 Comments:
We just received our bracelets yesterday. We ordered 4. Even though we have five people in our family I thought one of the kids wouldn't want one to be reminded of what we all went through in 2003.(Survivor is our daughter, age 11, brothers age are ages 7,9) Boy was I wrong. We have ordered 4 more....now friends want one too!
Thank you SO MUCH!!!
Survivor's Mom,
Julie
Julie,
I am so glad that your family and especially your daughter, feel this way. It is one step in the right direction towards increasing public awareness. I know many people have asked me what my bracelet says and then it opens up a conversation. I hope that my care ribbon also makes people do the same!
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