Shelly talks about the challenges with having to take diuretics.
Transcript
So it makes it difficult to go out to restaurants. Like you know your – everyone wants to go out to eat, or to do this, or do that and you just have to watch what you’re doing because and as well your on water pills. So, when you’re on water pills you have to use the washroom a lot. So, when you go out you’ve got to make sure you know where the washrooms are because you’re on water pills that make you go all the time. So that’s a big inconvenience too when you’re going out.
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