Stories

Learning to breathe It’s been a real struggle for me. As an active person with five sons and a husband, three cats, and a dog to look after as well...

Recently I found myself with an extra 100 lbs., and dragging oxygen tubing throughout my house. The weight came from that "miracle" drug called Prednisone, and the oxygen is supposed...

I was diagnosed with COPD around 2017. A year after my husband of 40 years passed away from colorectal cancer. In 2019, had a really deep basal cell Carcinoma (...

50 year smoker, stage 4 COPD, yadi, yadi, you've heard it all before. COPD is a "sorry, but you did it to yourself" stigma. Not true in all cases, I...

I think discovering the trends and symptoms very early in the process can give us more choices about treating the moment. OK, not so much about choices, but I think...

I have been battling COPD for about 10 years. I bartended back in the smoking inside days and it has given me this awful disease. I also work for a...

Hope is the reality that, the instant it's over, becomes a memory. All that is an arcane academic paragraph that doesn't tell you how to manage the next minute or...

My husband suffers from M.E. (CFS) and is on immunosuppressants, having had a kidney transplant, and I suffer from diabetes & COPD. I do the cooking for both of us...

I took Breo for nine months and stopped with my pulmonologist's approval. Every couple of months I would have a bout of pneumonia and we couldn't figure out why. Well...

I was diagnosed with severe COPD on my 63rd birthday. I knew something was going on so I intentionally made an appointment to see a Pulmonary Specialist as a birthday...

I too have some difficulty with anxiety. My daughter thinks I should get therapy. I disagree. Therapy can't remove the source of my anxieties. I am anxious going anywhere, concerned...

I have written about this before, but now l have a problem with it. I started using my walker with the big oxygen in my basket, in my apartment to...

Almost 5 years ago I was diagnosed with cold. For years I had complained to my Dr about inability to breathe. His answer was walk, walk walk. That was the...

I watched my father-in-law struggle with COPD for several years. He not only smoked, but was a retired firefighter, serving at a time when the protection from smoke was not...

Hi all, Well, the last two weeks have been bad with Dan being in hospital again. This is the second time in two weeks.He is having a really hard time...

All my life I've been an exercise and nutrition fanatic. I've never smoked, never used illicit drugs or abused prescription medications. I hardly ever embibe. For more than 50+ years...

I have used oxygen at home for over 6 years. I have tripped over it, my friends the same. I also have a walker. I am talking about the tubing...

I've needed to use prednisone more often, and my pulmonologist recently saw me and reviewed what inhalers I've been on. He feels Dulera will be beneficial and says to discontinue...

Hi, I got COPD in 2004 and the following year I lost my husband. It was very hard to deal with the loss and my grief. I was not on...

In the past 2-1/2 years, I have gone from walking through a fairly normal (for me anyway) life, to jumping on this crazy coaster of chronic illness. I am 61...