Tauranga boy pleads for Trikafta drug to ease cystic fibrosis
19 Feb, 2021 10:00 PM
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Harry Oxenham has cystic fibrosis and hopes a treatment drug will change his life. Photo / George Novak
Harry Oxenham has cystic fibrosis and hopes a treatment drug will change his life. Photo / George Novak
It s a little like the sound of a dishwasher or the
washing machine. The sound is relentless - constantly filling the silence of thought as Harry s parents, Aly, Dan and I talk.
Ironically, relentless is how Aly describes the half-hour treatment regime that sees Harry using three different mouthpieces, to achieve three different results for the sticky mucus on his lungs, otherwise known as cystic fibrosis.