I am advocating on behalf of my best friend, Niki Harris, she has gastroparesis. She suffers with this illness and other illnesses that are associated with Gastroperesis like orthostatic hypotension and autonomic neuropathy. She suffers from dehydration and low blood pressure daily. She has to take salt tablets and make sure she stays hydrated and a lot of times it’s still hard to manage. She cannot eat a lot of foods that someone without Gastroperesis could eat like spaghetti, chicken, hamburger, steak, etc. When she eats foods that she’s able, she gets bloated and has unbearable stomach pain that causes nausea and vomiting or diarrhea. If you look up Gastroperesis awareness, her and millions of others are starving and they need a cure. The care they receive is a lot of cases is horrifying. There are several times Niki went to the ER in horrible #10 pain scale and the nurses and doctors didn’t believe her. She and her mother would have to plead with them to believe her. We need this bill to move forward for my friend and for others fighting this invisible disease.