Living Alone

Hi resurrected, and thanks for your post - you have posed an excellent question.
I am hopeful others in the community will see your inquiry and respond by sharing their own personal experiences managing this disease and living alone. I do recall many in the community speaking of this topic so perhaps those community members will chime in as well.
In the meantime, I thought you might find it helpful to look over these articles, several of which refer to people who are living alone with COPD: https://copd.net/search?s=living%20alone.
I do hope you find them to be helpful in a practical way.
Wishing you well,
Leon (site moderator COPD.net)

Thank You

Hi resurrected, I live alone and some times it is very hard to deal with but what helps is getting out and about, having a pet for company, if you have a carer, having them visit at least once a day even if only for an hour. Take up some hobbies ie jigsaws, crosswords maybe knitting whatever you feel comfortable doing or can manage. Hope this helps Jules

I live alone, I have no choice but care for myself, my grown up children don't like me to talk about it, & they are ignorant to this, I get ignored when I ask them not to smoke in my flat, even when I shout it, they tell me to stop moaning & they are only concerned bout their lives, only time I'm contacted is when they want something, are on their own, want me to do something give them something then I don't here from them till next time, I'm took for granted & it's my fault if their life is not going to plan, I'm not included in their family life cause that's their family, I don't get invitations to any family gatherings, their father & his wife do, yet I am polite to my ex & Mrs. I get left out on birthdays but hell goes on if their birthday comes up & I give them birthday money late, my ex's wife gets mother's day, I now never celebrate mother's day cos I'm just the birth mum, it's sad really, well used to it, I won't ask em for help even if they do love me they definitely don't care, so I visit them only if they ask but that's cause they want something so now I avoid visiting, one day they will realise but then it will be too late, my heart was broken , life goes on & I suppose I will be careing for myself alone till I die now, I lose track of asking for meds, I feel as if it's asking too much so I try to spread it out, Ive learnt nobody cares how I am how I feel what I do or know I exist anymore, I've not seen my GP since before pandemic I go to appointments I'm sent like diabetic eye screening x-ray once breast screening go for flu vaccines I have phone call for reviews on my illnesses told only go ER if I can't breathe everything else have NHS advise online basically look ya gonna die it's expected plan ya funeral end of I live for me nobody else but don't know why I'm alive cause I feel so alone cause that's what I am . I'm not gonna be a burden or beg for help, if people care then they would be there for you, well I'm not important enough to be loved & I forgot how that feels but I have my cats who give me the love I need. So I manage self care, I'm independent person