miracle drug has transformed her life. Cheryl Dester, 33, is one of the first patients to be prescribed Kaftrio since it was made available on the NHS in August after a campaign by the Daily Record. “I was waiting to die, basically,” said Cheryl, from Blackburn, Aberdeen, who was on oxygen 24 hours a day as her lung function plunged to just 13 per cent.“I never thought I would still be here.
I had given up hope, to be honest. I didn’t think I would see my daughter Darcey’s first day at school, never mind Christmas.“I felt I was being robbed of being a mum for all these years because I couldn’t do much with Darcey.
I was bedridden some days and just unable to walk and sometimes talk.”Her agonising time on the lung transplant waiting list was.
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