Month: June 2019

Coverage for medical nutrition would be a huge blessing to me and my family, and also many other individuals with PKU especially women. I am very blessed to have insurance through my dad that helps cover part of both my

Having coverage would make sure that my baby will always have the food and formula she needs throughout her life to have a healthy brain. We have been consistent in taking very good care of her health and this would

Our PKU story is just getting started. We are older parents now. At ages 45 and 37, we decided to have a baby. We had just gotten married in 2017, and we wanted to have a child together. We have

What would having coverage for medical nutrition mean to me, to my family? Everything!! The options of being nutritionally satisfied and not hungry without the extreme cost would completely change our lives. It would change the way we plan every

When Krew turns 6 and is no longer covered by the state metabolic program, we will have to seriously consider moving to a state with better coverage. It would break our hearts to take him and our other children away

Having a child with PKU is extremely time consuming! I am always preparing special food for him and making sure he has what he needs to continue to grow. As we get closer to him turning 5, our only option

His medical formula/milk costs about $130 a can. He goes through about 5 cans a month. Thankfully that’s currently covered under Medicaid. The other $180 is buying special low protein foods to live within his PKU prescribed diet. There is

Clark is 3 years old, and has a twin brother. He is as rambunctious and full of energy as any 3 year old boy could be. He’s the pickier eater of the two, but he’s at the age where he

I actually have two daughters with PKU. My grocery and monthly expenses is double what the average family pays. Medical bills have made it hard to provide for basic needs for my family.

Because of the cost of medical nutrition, we sacrifice many other things. We are blessed to have always been able to afford medical foods, but as these children get older and need to provide for themselves, it is likely they