A woman has told how she is ‘happy to be alive’ after her vaping addiction left her on life support suffering a life-threatening lung condition. Amanda Stelzer, 34, started vaping seven years ago when her friends all started doing it and the cool flavours gave her a "buzz".
For seven years, Amanda was getting through two four-packs of liquid cartridges every week or the equivalent of more than one cartridge a day. Eventually, she ended up in hospital.
She visited an urgent care centre in October 2019 as she was struggling to breathe, had severe lower back pain and felt like her heart was "beating out of her chest". Despite extensive bloodwork and urine tests, doctors couldn’t work out what was wrong and sent her to the hospital in an ambulance.
