New to this Forum

I found this Group only this morning. I kept meaning to search for one but kept forgetting. I have memory issues. Anyway, I was diagnosed this year with COPD/Emphysema on Valentine's Day of this year. My GP had noticed my shortness of breath so recommended that I go to the ER and ask for scans.They took rads, an MRI and a CT. Not only do I have the above-mentioned problems but a bacterium in my lungs as well. I am already suffering from a different bacterium in my brain, so we all expected it to be the same one from 2015 that had started out in my lungs and went to my brain, slowly killing me as it parties and reproduces, eating away at my 'white matter', causing hallucinations and epilepsy.

Contending with multiple issues

This one however is new, and the treatment is TWO YEARS of three different types of antibacterials. Assuming that I live long enough (prognosis for the first one is not good, as it cannot be killed; I'd be dead already had they not eventually discovered that sulfa drugs are working to keep it reasonably at bay) then I should eventually be shed of the new bacterium. At least THAT is something.
However Emphysema, since it cannot be cured either, is an issue for me too. I feel as though there's some kind of mad race in my body; of which disease will I die first? lol

My current treatment plan

I have no energy, no real strength any longer, and constant trouble with just breathing. On two different inhalers as well as four other meds for the two bacteriums, four for epilepsy, and a depressing number of other meds for things that just happen to older people. 17 different Rxs, counting the inhalers. I keep most of them in a box in the kitchen cabinet out of sight so that they won't depress me just by looking at them when I'm not having to take something. Oh, and Vit B6 because the newest bacterium, or the meds, can't recall, destroys B6.

How do I feel about it?

I've joined this forum because of the Emphysema, so I'll stick to that topic here. I just wanted you all to get to know me a bit and to understand where I'm at regarding my issues with it and how I feel regarding this new diagnosis.
EXTENSIVE therapy over these last recent years regarding my other issues has helped me to not fear death any longer, not to exactly EMBRACE it either mind you; just not to fear it. So Emphysema isn't scary for me. It's merely a major (and I mean MAJOR) annoyance.
Thanks to everyone for reading. Good meeting you and I'm glad to have found this Forum.