Hereditary

Sashenka Paatz
4 min readMar 30, 2021

Lori Moore’s Life-Time Struggle With Alpha-1

Photo by Jude Beck on Unsplash

“The doctors didn’t say it was asthma. They didn’t say it was anything specific. They just had her on puffers. There was just too much stress on her body and my sister died.”

My oldest sister was 59 when she died from what doctors referred to as “pulmonary complications”.

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Sashenka Paatz

Canadian journalist, traveller and teacher with a passion for creativity, organization, teaching and advocating for others.