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Is anyone feeling overwhelmed with doctor appointments? I sure am! Between missing yearly appointments the last few years from COVID and my recent ER visit, I feel I have enough...

The longer that I’ve been in this COPD world, the more opportunity I have had to talk with others that have COPD. I may have met only a few dozen...

The old adage goes, “We make hay when the sun shines”. So, as February turns into March, and March into April, I will be bravely getting ready to leave my...

I don’t know about all of you, but this new variant on the rise has my nerves on end. I normally try to keep my articles upbeat, but I want...

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Okay, it’s something we don’t like to talk about, but we really should. How is the intimacy in your home? Over the past eleven years since being diagnosed with Alpha-1...

I have battled being underweight or overweight all my life, shuffling between too small or too big. I intensely focus on input and output, or what I should eat and...

Editor's note: This is part 2 of a series. Be sure to check out part 1 and part 3! Where do I even begin? Packing for me is worse than...

“I felt so good I just flat out forgot my medicine!” said a COPD patient of mine from out of town. He was referring to his nebulizer and rescue inhaler...

Editor's note: This is part 1 of a series. Be sure to check out part 2 and part 3! Well, it's that time of year again, time for our second...

As humans, we were slow to understand how delicate and precious our lungs really are. From our gestation age to environment and lifestyle choices, almost everything we do in our...

The Media Habits Survey is now closed. Thank you for your interest! Managing a chronic condition is not easy and can be physically and mentally exhausting. What types of media...

What do you love doing that makes you forget about your illness? Do you have feelings of, “I can’t do this, because of anxiety?” Can you anticipate what you must...

Another year of living with COPD has come and gone. It has been eight years. It has become easier because of the knowledge I have gained through the experience of...

What do you expect from a doctor and how do you lay the ground rules of managing your COPD? We know that all doctors are not created equally. Most are true...

When I got my diagnosis of stage 4 COPD I was so scared. I thought I had been diagnosed and sent home to die. Though it was my first diagnosis...

January and September are renewal months for me. I love the thought of September with new pencils and the smell of new books. Education has always been a big part...

Editor's note: This is part 3 of a series. Be sure to check out part 1 and part 2! Is that all for this series? Sadly, no. My sister-in-law has...

Birds entertain me through the cold winter months and into the spring and summer. Before COPD, my desk was facing into the room, and my back was to the window...