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Recent content by StellaTX

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    Guardedly EXCITED??!

    Does anyone know how soon we can get Symdeko? My Vertex case manager emailed me yesterday to let me know that my children’s mutation would be a candidate for Symdeko. They are currently on Kalydeco. I contacted our CF doctor, and the nurse said that they were waiting on their Vertex rep to meet...
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    2 teen siblings diagnosed

    No, newborn screenings didn’t go into effect until 2007 (after they were born).
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    2 teen siblings diagnosed

    Yes, actually Kalydeco is being shipped tomorrow. I’m looking forward to getting my kids started on it. Especially, the one that has been symptomatic.
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    2 teen siblings diagnosed

    Kenna2, thank you so much for your support and very kind words. These diagnoses have brought on such a lonely feeling in a very unfamiliar way. It is almost too much to process. I’m glad to have the support of others going through it.
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    2 teen siblings diagnosed

    My two children were just diagnosed very late 16, 13 yrs old with F508 c 2657+5G>A. Such a shock for all of us. We are so devastated. I feel so bad that we did know sooner. I pray that they haven’t suffered too much damage. One of them shows no symptoms at all. The other had bronchitis off and...
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