Jacob Venditti is enjoying life again thanks to medication to treat cystic fibrosis
Breakthrough medication helps man resume his favorite activity By Jon Evans | April 22, 2021 at 4:45 PM EDT - Updated April 22 at 8:06 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Jacob Venditti’s life has changed dramatically in the past 18 months. If you look at him now, cruising on a skateboard inside an empty cement pool, you wouldn’t know the depths his physical and mental condition reached in 2019, when cystic fibrosis had diminished his lung capacity to 30 percent.
“There was four times when I was admitted to the hospital, with complications between them,” he said during an interview with WECT in December 2019. “I had pneumonia twice. My ankles were swelling up out of nowhere, I couldn’t walk around. That was really scary. Stomach pains that were awful. I was going to emergency room for random things like that. There were moments where I definitely felt like I didn’t want to get out of b