Jenna lowe's story
The following information was collected via internet:
http://www.hellodoctor.co.za/jenna-lowes-story/ If it wasn’t for the thin, clear plastic oxygen tubing and a slight catch in her voice, you wouldn’t even know about the battle that young Jenna Lowe is waging. In her video insert on episode 12 (19 January) of the Hello Doctor Show, the beautiful and articulate 19-year-old explains how an ordinary hike in the mountains became a massive turning-point in her life. Her doctors initially thought that she suffered from asthma, but after serious setbacks, specialised tests finally picked up the real cause. At the age of 17 Jenna was diagnosed with an extremely rare lung disease called Primary Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension – a little-known, degenerative and life-threatening condition that completely changed her life. The condition is rare, very difficult to diagnose, and it can’t be cured. Patients are treated with various combinations of medication and therapy to help ease the symptoms. Jenna is currently undergoing rigorous 24/7 treatments, and our thoughts are with her and her family as they take on whatever future challenges the condition presents. |
The Jenna lowe trust
For more info, visit the website to the Jenna Lowe trust. http://jennalowe.org/
Jenna and the Lowe Family have three main goals for this Trust:
1) To help raise awareness for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and other rare diseases in South Africa
2) As a result of raising awareness, to help sufferers get earlier diagnosis and have access to the treatment they need
3) To raise funds for Jenna’s expensive life-prolonging medications
Jenna and the Lowe Family have three main goals for this Trust:
1) To help raise awareness for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and other rare diseases in South Africa
2) As a result of raising awareness, to help sufferers get earlier diagnosis and have access to the treatment they need
3) To raise funds for Jenna’s expensive life-prolonging medications
Liz Murray Testimony
Author of: Breaking night
possibility
choice
Sophie Hayes Testimony
Author of: Trafficked and founder of Sophie Hayes Foundation
About SophieThe Sophie Hayes Foundation was set up and inspired by Sophie in January 2012. Since Sophie's return to the UK she has been relentless in her work in order to make a difference and change perceptions, Human Trafficking is one of the world's fastest growing crimes, Sophie brings to life that this could happen to anyone, Sophie could be your sister, your daughter, your friend.... Sophie could be just like you....
"Just a few years ago everything changed. I was trafficked. I was fooled. I was deceived by a man who said that he loved me. The tragedy is that I believed him. Now I know that love is not shown by forcing me to work on the streets, beating me up, force feeding me and turning me into someone with no mind of my own. For people like him my life meant nothing, I was a product and a vehicle to make money but I am a survivor.
Since my ordeal I have been determined to turn the experience into a positive one, everyone deserves freedom and their basic human rights, and although he stole my freedom, I am determined to do everything in my power to make a difference and share a story of Hope to others.
"Just a few years ago everything changed. I was trafficked. I was fooled. I was deceived by a man who said that he loved me. The tragedy is that I believed him. Now I know that love is not shown by forcing me to work on the streets, beating me up, force feeding me and turning me into someone with no mind of my own. For people like him my life meant nothing, I was a product and a vehicle to make money but I am a survivor.
Since my ordeal I have been determined to turn the experience into a positive one, everyone deserves freedom and their basic human rights, and although he stole my freedom, I am determined to do everything in my power to make a difference and share a story of Hope to others.