Time to Start Educating Myself

My memories of my mother were mostly of how sick she was with asthma all my growing up life some fifty years ago, so I have always considered myself “lucky” to have suffered from very mild asthma managed with corticosteroids and occasional rescue inhaler.

Two years ago I presented with chest pains so the GP sent me to a specialist internalist. The result came back after a spirometry of mild small airway disease so I just carried on with meds and didn’t think about it much.

This year has been bewildering in many ways with fatigue creeping in etc and starting more frequent visits to the GP and being told to take more meds and adjust life to the fatigue etc. I'm grateful I’m not on x6 of inhaler per day! I’m thankful I have found this group and having read all that I can find here and having many “lightbulb moments." I see that it is the community support and the education that comes from that support is what has been missing. I will ask questions, ask for referrals for therapies etc. Also that COPD requires a change to my approach to life, but there is life to be lived.