Sarah Ford | November 3, 2014
Living a Full Life
Seven-year-old Jamese loves to sing and dance and will be singing in her school’s talent show. She also loves to read, is on the honor roll at school and won the Principal’s Citizenship Award. To top it all off, she’s taking cooking classes to learn how to bake cookies and granola bars.
Not much seems to slow her down, but Jamese was diagnosed with severe chronic continuous asthma, dermatitis and allergic rhinitis. In the last two years, she has been in the doctor’s office multiple times, the emergency room twice, and admitted to the hospital. This has caused her to miss multiple days of school and her parents to miss multiple days of work.
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