Cathe LeBlanc Satterthwaite suffers from three diseases, but she says it's her gastroparesis, which causes food to exit her stomach much more slowly, that has really narrowed what she can consume. How does she know what she can eat?
"It's really trial and error. It came more to what I could keep down and as the disease progressed, it became a lot less products that I could keep down," she explained. "When it's in a flare up or it's a bad day, it will make me vomit and it will cause diarrhea."
Over time, she says she's come to rely on one food as her main source of sustenance: Dannon wildberry yogurt.
Not being able to rely on whether the only food item she could eat would be available at the local grocery store, her husband Al was in a panic. He went searching everywhere, until he found Steve in the dairy department of Henning's Market in Harleysville and told him he needed a specific type of yogurt.
"He told his boss that it was important that I had that and now we have an arrangement that I pick up three cases twice a week," he recalled.
Cathe Satterthwaite said she basically survives on that and over 30 supplements.
"My body rejected potatoes, my body rejected peanut butter. The only thing my body could keep down was a wildberry yogurt," she shared.
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Satterthwaite said the first time she saw her husband with all that yogurt, she nearly cried.
"It was three boxes of 12 and I looked at him and I go, 'Where'd you get it?' I keep thinking, 'What am I going to eat? What am I going to eat?' And I was trying bites of this and that and I'm spitting it out and tears kept coming down my face and I go, 'Give it to me! Give me one box, now,'" she said.
Now her husband is known at Henning's as the yogurt guy.
"We wanted to thank them and I want people to know that there are good people out there. There are people that care," she expressed.