Trigger finger might not sound serious if you’ve never had it, but for Jodi L, a project manager at Omnicell, the symptoms were “debilitating.” She couldn’t exercise the way she wanted to, and the pain and frustration followed her through her daily activities. “It was pretty unfortunate, and I wasn’t able to do a lot of things,” she said.
When her Lantern ID card arrived in the mail from her employer, she finally had a way to address her pain. “I got this little awesome green card in the mail from Lantern from my company, and when it says ‘need surgery,’ you need to pay attention to this because Lantern’s gonna totally take care of you,” Jodi said.
For Jodi, that mattered because she didn’t think she could afford the procedure on her own. “I would not have been able to afford this surgery if it wasn’t for Lantern. I would have continued to be in pain and frustration and limiting myself to my daily activities.”
Today, Jodi is back to feeling like herself. “Lantern lit my way back to living by letting me exercise again regularly,” she said.
She thanked Lantern “for getting me back on my feet and letting me exercise again and getting back to my normal life,” and closed with a message for the team: “You are the ones that brought me back to some normal life situations.”
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