• Promote public awareness of sarcoidosis
  
• to educate patients, families and friends and the medical community about sarcoidosis
  
• to provide friendship and support through group and e-mail
  

When we are educated about this disease, this disease becomes less fearsome.

Who Am I?

My name is Brenda Harris. I was diagnosed with Sarcoidosis April, 1989. I remember the first time I heard about this disease. I was in the Doctor's office complaining of a cough. My doctor took a x-ray and looked grim and told me she thought I had Sarcoidosis.

My first thought was give me some medication and let's get rid of this! I was to find out it wouldn't be that easy. The cough became a daily part of my life. I felt I had to do something about this disease. So I started
Let's Breathe - Sarcoidosis Support Group, in January of 1991.

Through the years that I have dealt with this disease, I have been from deep despair, to considering sarcoidosis as a gift of enlightment to educate the public.