My Story

I was diagnosed at age of 78 in 2021 with IPF, and prognosis was 6 months to 2 years which I have just passed.  There is no cure and only two medications that help slow the progress but each medication has for many people nasty side affects. I have witnessed first hand the affects of this dreadful illness and how it affects not just the sufferer but their families as well. Many people think it is COPD but it is not, Pulmonary Fibrosis attacks the lungs making them hard like pumice stones, you find it diccult to expel your breath and you are unable to get rid of the carbon dioxide  building up in your body, your oxygen  levels drop preventing oxygen reaching other organs in your body and after time these organs begin to shut down.The  majority of sufferers will end up on oxygen.  There is very little money going into research of this disease and since Covid the number of people being diagnosed has increased dramatically. For this reason I decided as it was my 80th year I would like to do something out of my comfort zone to raise awareness  and funds for research and I would so much appreciate a donation however small to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Trust and I thank you from the bottom of my heart and assure you that any monies raised  will go to this worthwhile cause to find a cure.  My thanks to Denise Reynolds my Daughter in law for driving me to Snowdonia and for accompanying me down the Velocity Zip Wire over Penrhyn  Quarry,  
Pamela Stevens