Rosa "Linda" Godfrey

August 22 at Isleta Resort & Casino

• 6 – 8 patients; 1 – 2 providers; 1 – 2 alternate stakeholders

• Patient, Provider, CH Worker, Farmer for audience participation/stage presence

Questions:

1. Name: Rosa “Linda” Godfrey, 76

   
   

2. Role they play: In the food is medicine cycle

   
   

3. How did you get involved with Food Farmacy? - told her doctor that she couldn’t afford the “good” things to eat; that sort of food is expensive.

   
   

4. Who referred you to the program? - Saw a cardiologist Jessica (something) at Rust, and was referred to the food farmacy for her heart disease/enlarged heart.

   
   

5. How long have they been with Pres/Food is Medicine? - Currently a participant’ lost weight/lost inches. Sugar down from 7 to 5.2, Considered pre-diabetic and no longer. Encouraged in her measurement session and the information she received from the community health.

   
   

6. What were you most hesitant about with participating (if applicable)? - not at all. Spoke with a dietician and they were so kind and nice and were there to help her. Confident in their advice and help.

   
   

7. What was your greatest takeaway? - lost almost 20 pounds; went the whole christmas season without a christmas cookie she didn’t want to disappoint the community health. Learned to know what her body needs and learned to take care of her body better. Know what to eat and what not to eat. Helps “me understand me” feels like common sense now; more thought behind her consumption. These are things that she never thought about or even learned about before. 

   
   

8. Why do you think this program is important? - think it’s important because so many people don’t know how to make healthy foods delicious. Not only that but the availability of them. Knowing it’s possible to make vegetables tasty.

   
   

9. Are you willing to be photographed and have your story/image/personal photo used to help with fundraising for food is medicine? Video? Would you be comfortable sharing your story on stage to a large audience? - Yes, can share about story, wouldn’t mind taking photograph; No video or audience. 

   
   

10. Is there anything else? - “I’m very fortunate that my doctor recommended this. It’s put eating and carbs and fat and health in a perspective that (she) never knew. It opened her eyes to so many things about food, diet, heart disease, kidney, diabetes”

"If more people I knew were in this program, they would do the right things for their body. I can control what I eat and how it affects me. And that’s the biggest takeaway for me. “I want to live to see 90 and you have to help me!”