STORIES: SURVIVORS
Real-life stories from our ARDS community. If you’d like to see your or your loved-one’s story presented here, please email us at [email protected].
Howard Coleman
ARDS Survivor Howard Coleman, a 49-year-old high school teacher from F [...]
Kimberly Wright-ARDS Survivor
ARDS became a reality for my wife and I in January 2014. My wife Kimbe [...]
Mark A Lowery – ARDS Survivor
Mark A. Lowery, an attorney in Boston, Massachusetts, battled ARDS in [...]
Silvana Breur – ARDS Survivor
Silvana Breur, who lives in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is thankful. I [...]
John Bolasky – ARDS Survivor
On September 15, 2000, forty-four year old John Bolasky went to the ho [...]
Gene Bass
In January of 2000, Gene Bass heard the term “ARDS” for the first time [...]
Brenda Ramsland – ARDS Survivor
Five years ago, twenty nine year old Brenda Ramsland, who lived near B [...]
Christina – ARDS Survivor
The week of Thanksgiving, 2009, started like any other work week for C [...]
Christina Londono – ARDS Survivor
On August 7, 2009 I was very sick with fever, body aches, cough and so [...]
Brett Bergerson – ARDS Survivor
Brett’s nightmare started Aug. 30, 2009. Twenty-two year old Brett wen [...]
Brandy – ARDS Survivor
Brandy’s story begins on January 26, 2006, when she was thirty years o [...]
Ivory – ARDS Survivor
On January 4, 2008, 5 year old Ivory went to the hospital in Columbus, [...]
Meg Tapucol-Provo – ARDS Survivor
Before her illness, Meg was an active, healthy mother who balanced her [...]
Melanie Raczka-Sinasac – ARDS Survivor
Everyone always says to enjoy every minute and live your life to the f [...]
Christian – ARDS Survivor
On May 22, 2008, Christian Rose, 33 years of age, went out with friend [...]
Kim – ARDS Survivor
In the middle of June, 2006, 17-year old Kim was diagnosed with pneumo [...]
Sophia – ARDS Survivor
Sophia, from Dublin and her Amazing Survivor Story On August 31, 2005, [...]
Eileen Rubin – ARDS Survivor
At thirty-three years of age, Eileen left the Cook County State’s Atto [...]
Jim McAuley – In Memoriam
Jim’s ARDS roller coaster ride began on Christmas Day. His daughter-in [...]
LoriBeth – ARDS Survivor
On May 12, 2000, LoriBeth came home throwing up and with a terrible he [...]
Jordan – ARDS Survivor
In February, 2008, 27 year old Jordan, who was living in Louisiana whe [...]
Sue Moul – ARDS Survivor
Sue Moul, ARDS Survivor Times Two Sue Moul survived two ARDS episodes. [...]
Joan – ARDS Survivor
On February 17, 2001, sixty-five year old Joan was driving home from w [...]
Saleena Silva – ARDS Survivor
Saleena, the smallest miracle. Saleena was born almost a month early [...]
Kristiana – ARDS Survivor
Kristiana Creamer was 22 years old when she learned that she was pregn [...]
Amanda – ARDS Survivor
Amanda’s story began in a rather unusual way. She had worked for five [...]
Mary Jo Hamilton – ARDS Survivor
On Friday, March 11, 2005, Mary Jo, 41, her sister, and their children [...]
Tricia Becker – ARDS Survivor
Tricia was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia, ARDS and sepsis. Doctor [...]
Chris – ARDS Survivor
ARDS strikes one family twice… Chris’s ARDS Story In August, 2006, Chr [...]
Sara Beth – ARDS Survivor
Sarah Beth had just celebrated her 49th birthday on May 16, 2002. She [...]
Michelle D. – ARDS Survivor
Michele was admitted to the hospital on April 5, 2006 when she was 49 [...]
Mark – ARDS Survivor
On the morning of December 23, 2005, Lynn found her 44 year old husban [...]
Julie Russell – ARDS Survivor
Eighteen year old Julie Russell had everything to live for…she was Pre [...]
Judy Otteson – ARDS Survivor
On Friday evening, November 20, 2004, Judy Otteson, then 60, from Yaki [...]
Peter – ARDS Survivor
Peter’s story, as well as his hospital stay, is a long one with an out [...]
Zoe Erin Lambert – ARDS Survivor
Zoe’s story is the story of a Warrior, it is the story a Survivor…. Zo [...]
Brad – ARDS Survivor
Brad’s ARDS experience began when he was thirty-one years old, in Dece [...]
Chuck – ARDS Survivor
Chuck’s ARDS story began when his wife called 911 on August 18, 2005, [...]
Lisa Snow – ARDS Survivor
Lisa Snow is a 46 year old wife and mother from Georgia and this is he [...]
Joshua Weaver – ARDS Survivor
Michelle rushed her four year old son, Joshua Weaver, to the ER at Hun [...]
John Nelson – ARDS Survivor
On July 27, 2005, forty-three year old John passed out in his apartmen [...]
Jessica – ARDS Survivor
On Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003, Jessica woke up complaining of being dizzy. [...]
Mechelle – ARDS Survivor
On June 8th, 2005, thirty-seven year old Mechelle, began to feel like [...]
Vicky Young – ARDS Survivor
Vicky Young, from Georgetown, SC, is a grateful survivor of ARDS. On T [...]
Judith Hoffman – ARDS Survivor
Judith Hoffman was fifty-one years old when she was trying to get appr [...]
Mel Johnson – ARDS Survivor
Mel’s Story written by his daughter, Jolene Troia Jolene Troia’s fathe [...]
Mike Gillespie – ARDS Survivor
Mike is a Miracle Man. If anyone does not believe in prayer, they had [...]
Fred – ARDS Survivor
In the early morning hours of February 19, 2005, after a restless nigh [...]
Doug – ARDS Survivor
Doug’s Story, When It Rains, It Pours. . . On Nov 14, 2002, Doug’s wif [...]
Dee – ARDS Survivor
On September 11, 1998 Dee entered the hospital for an out-patient surg [...]
Ivora McKenzie – ARDS Survivor
Ivora’s story began the second week of August 2005 when she developed [...]
Jacob Stewart – ARDS Survivor
Jacob Stewart is a nine-year-old boy, whose parents, DeAnna and Larry [...]
Susan Sarno – ARDS Survivor
On December 28, 2003, thirty-six year old Susan Sarno was fourteen wee [...]
Stefan Parmenter – ARDS Survivor
In April 2004, when Stefan Parmenter was diagnosed with Lung Cancer, h [...]
Angela Bowen – ARDS Survivor
Angela Bowen’s long ARDS journey began on June 26, 2002 during a surgi [...]
Jenny – ARDS Survivor
On August 27, 2003, Jenny was 25 years old. She was also very pregnant [...]
Rilee Higley – ARDS Survivor
Thirty-five year old Rilee Higley is an ARDS survivor. On February 18, [...]
Frank – ARDS Survivor
Frank and Robin moved to Plains, Pennsylvania in 1995 and found one an [...]
Sarah – ARDS Survivor
Sarah was diagnosed with ARDS in April, 2004. She was twenty-seven yea [...]
Lafrieda Morris – ARDS Survivor
Lafrieda Morris went to the hospital on February 7, 2002, for an abdom [...]
Lester Cohen – ARDS Survivor
In July, 2003, Lester Cohen turned 81 years old. Les was always a very [...]
Mary (Lola) Griggs – ARDS Survivor
Mary is the youngest of four daughters, born on May 21, 1999. As the y [...]
Donna Brady – ARDS Survivor
On Thanksgiving Day 2003, getting ready to go to her daughter’s house [...]
Trish Framel – ARDS Survivor
On May 27, 2004, thirty-three year old Trish left her home in Owasso, [...]
Sara Siak – ARDS Survivor
Twenty-three year old Sarah Siak had a rough pregnancy from the start. [...]
Sue – ARDS Survivor
Forty-six year old Sue felt bad during the last week in October, 2003. [...]
Dana Raymer – ARDS Survivor
Dana Raymer, was seventeen years old and seven months pregnant with he [...]
kristy Kristy Shultz – ARDS Survivor
On June 15th, 2003, (Father’s Day), thirty-three year old Kristy Shult [...]
Shirley Simmons – ARDS Survivor
On September 15, 1999, Shirley Simmons was fifty-four years old. She w [...]
Greg – ARDS Survivor
It started in January when he suspected he had pneumonia. Luckily, he [...]
Jennifer – ARDS Survivor
Jennifer is a very recent ARDS survivor. Twenty-four year old Jennifer [...]
Monique Levesque – ARDS Survivor
Forty-three year old Monique went to sleep on December 20, 2002, and w [...]
Alan Moses – ARDS Survivor
Forty-nine year old Alan Moses had a series of medical tests in [...]
Marlene Harris – ARDS Survivor
Marlene was born and raised on the West Coast in the United States. In [...]
Sheryll Graham – ARDS Survivor
On November 18, 1998, forty-two year old Sherryll went into the hospit [...]
Pastor Ian Robb – ARDS Survivor
I was reading some of the ARDS stories and came to my own version of e [...]
Bob Jayroe – ARDS Survivor
It all started for Bob Jayroe on May 25 in Palo Alto, CA with a sore t [...]
Lizzy Ball – ARDS Survivor
Elizabeth I. Ball, fifty-four years old, attended a wedding in on Nove [...]
Jeffrey Rogers – ARDS Survivor
Jeffrey Rogers, 45 years old, lives in Modesto,CA. On Thursday, Januar [...]
Jackson – ARDS Survivor
13-month old Jackson was diagnosed with ARDS on August 3, 2002, at Chi [...]
Stephanie Linebaugh – ARDS Survivor
In September, 2003, Stephanie Linebaugh had been training all summer w [...]
Deb Kuhn – ARDS Survivor
Deb’s life was no busier than any wife, mother of two and part-time ma [...]
Cyndy Villegas – ARDS Survivor
Thirty-six year old Cyndy Villegas was just returning to college after [...]
Rhonda Hager – ARDS Survivor
Rhonda said it was just another typical day for her on July 25, 2002,: [...]
Nicole Milbury – ARDS Survivor
Twenty seven year old Nicole Milbury entered the world of ARDS Aug. 9, [...]
Emma Johnson – ARDS Survivor
Forty-six year old Emma Johnson, who lives in a small, southern town i [...]
Cynthia Gardiner – ARDS Survivor
On April 5, 2002, Cynthia went to the ER after suffering severe abdomi [...]
Diane Rasa – ARDS Survivor
Diane, a 37-year-old woman married to a wonderful man for the past 3 y [...]
Sandra Bell Meyer – ARDS Survivor
Thirty-six year old Sandra Bell Meyer remembers that her first symptom [...]
Jeralyn Hines – ARDS Survivor
On October 20, 2001, Jeralyn Hines had a terrible headache. Although h [...]
Rhonda Bova – ARDS Survivor
On March 28, 2001, Rhonda Bova awoke with terrible stomach cramping. R [...]
Tina – ARDS Survivor
Tina, from Westminster, MD is a two time ARDS survivor. At the age of, [...]
JeanMarie – ARDS Survivor
JeanMarie is a 49 year old physical therapist who was working in two s [...]
Patrick Cuff – ARDS Survivor
In May 2001, 41 year old Patrick Cuff had an accident. He was 35 feet [...]
John Manikowski – ARDS Survivor
John Manikowski says that “It” all started with back surgery–which was [...]
Amanda Tissen – ARDS Survivor
On February 7, 2001, Amanda Tissen was broadsided by two car thieves w [...]
Karen Linen – ARDS Survivor
Karen’s story begins in April, 2000 when she was forty-two years old. [...]
Louise Montgomery – ARDS Survivor
Louise Montgomery suffered a fractured ankle in May, 2000. She was get [...]
Penny Kraemer – ARDS Survivor
On January 20, 2000, nineteen-year-old Penny took an overdose of presc [...]
Gene Bass’ Mom – ARDS Survivor
In January of 2000, Gene Bass heard the term “ARDS” for the first time [...]
Stephen R. Yarnall, M.D. – ARDS Survivor
On January 28, 2000, Stephen and his wife Lynn were skiing at Mt. Rose [...]
Dan Bennett – ARDS Survivor
Dan Bennett @ age 40 In October 1999, Dan and his wife had just had th [...]
Family Member of Donna Hild – ARDS Survivor
In April, 1999, Donna and Richard’s nineteen year old daughter Amy was [...]
Dee Storey, ARDS Survivor
Dee’s ARDS experience began on April 14, 2000, with an emergency call [...]
Kim – ARDS Survivor
Kim’s ARDS story began on Sunday November 13th,1994. She was enjoying [...]
Linda Root – ARDS Survivor
On January 31, 1995, Linda Root’s husband took her to St. Clare’s Emer [...]