I am happy to say I have finally connect with our local NDP Candidate Kathy Kendall to discuss the up and coming election and PKU. I would first off like to thank both Terry Lake and Kathy Kendall for taking time away from there campaigning and busy schedules to listen to my message and my concerns. I also want to thank party leader Adrian Dix for responding to my emails. I am very grateful for the support I have seen from both parties. Of course now I am faced with making my final decision for the vote on Tuesday. 

However let me for now put that aside and tell you about my call with Kathy. 

Kathy and I connected by email on friday, however I was sleeping from night shift and missed her email. I responded to her email in the early hours of saturday morning . Kathys team had looked up my home adress and she had planned to stop by but was unable to find a listed phone number for me. I do not have a house line so I only have a cell phone and of course those are not listed. Due to the shorten time frame and the election just around the corner we set up a meeting to speak on the phone. 

Kathy called me at home tonight at 8:30 and introduced her self to me. We spoke again mostly on PKU. I explained my concerns with how our last year of campaigning had been met in the liberal goverment and how BC is the worse place to have PKU do to their lack of support and treatment coverage. Kathy listened intently and asked how BC was behind the rest of Canada . We talked about the Comprehensive brain stradagey plan by CanPKU and what our requests where. She requested a copy of the plan after the election. We also talked about my desire to be a mother and our personal reasons for holding off. How we where scared and waiting for better aces to treatments and more support for adults. I talked about my past experiences and how my diet and my levels are directly linked to my income as a causal nurse. I felt as a women Kathy could relate to my desire to be a mom, and kathy  has a back ground as a legal aide lawyer and has made it a point to support lower income families and advocates for more supports for services to the lower class. Such as access to food. I felt that my message was herd by Kathy and was happy to hear that if she was elected she would continue to work with me and meet with me be an advocate for me and for PKU. I invited her to the Kamloops walk for PKU and told her about a few more families in her riding about PKU and some if the issues they face. both as adults, families and children. 

After discussing PKU we briefly talked about LPN’s, the future of health care and why the NDP voted against bill 18.  

Our call was cut short and it was getting late but Kathy invited me to continue to email her if I had anything else to discuss or had any more questions.  

So now we wait, after the votes or casted and the final tallies are in, I will be watching intensely and plan on following up as soon as possible with my elected MLA. 

I wish all parties the best of luck and look forward to working with either Terry Lake or Kathy Kendall. 

To everyone else, please go out and vote!! please please please. It is our democratic right and we need to exersize that right so that one day it is not taken away from us!