Self help helps.I have been prescribed for un-named lung problems since 2005. I say un-named because it was many years later that someone referred...reactions1comment
diagnosisI had to learn was how to listen to health care people who were leading me through the process. At first, 'here...reactions4comments
Learning to breatheLearning to breathe It’s been a real struggle for me. As an active person with five sons and a husband, three cats...reactionscomments
Hopeful or HopelessRecently I found myself with an extra 100 lbs., and dragging oxygen tubing throughout my house. The weight came from that "miracle"...reactions9comments
Tired of it allI was diagnosed with COPD around 2017. A year after my husband of 40 years passed away from colorectal cancer. In 2019...reactions4comments
All there is is hope50 year smoker, stage 4 COPD, yadi, yadi, you've heard it all before. COPD is a "sorry, but you did it to...reactions2comments
Hope definedHope is the reality that, the instant it's over, becomes a memory. All that is an arcane academic paragraph that doesn't tell...reactions3comments
Choices are often related to awarenessI think discovering the trends and symptoms very early in the process can give us more choices about treating the moment. OK...reactions2comments
Struggling but livingI have been battling COPD for about 10 years. I bartended back in the smoking inside days and it has given me...reactions2comments
Easiest way to shop & cookMy husband suffers from M.E. (CFS) and is on immunosuppressants, having had a kidney transplant, and I suffer from diabetes & COPD...reactions9comments
Family Support Is CriticalI was diagnosed with severe COPD on my 63rd birthday. I knew something was going on so I intentionally made an appointment...reactions3comments
Regarding BreoI took Breo for nine months and stopped with my pulmonologist's approval. Every couple of months I would have a bout of...reactions2comments
AnxietyI too have some difficulty with anxiety. My daughter thinks I should get therapy. I disagree. Therapy can't remove the source of...reactions4comments
TubingI have written about this before, but now l have a problem with it. I started using my walker with the big...reactions10comments
The first diagnosisI watched my father-in-law struggle with COPD for several years. He not only smoked, but was a retired firefighter, serving at a...reactions8comments
Don’t give up!Hi all, Well, the last two weeks have been bad with Dan being in hospital again. This is the second time in...reactions4comments
Oxygen TubingI have used oxygen at home for over 6 years. I have tripped over it, my friends the same. I also have...reactions7comments
Muscle spasms in my intercostal musclesI have muscle spasms often during COVID from being inactive. When the pain occurs it moves under my breast and hurts bad...reactions1comment
MY COPD JOURNEYI was fourteen when I came to terms with my own mortality. Sitting at the top of Mill Hill, on the South...reactions3comments
Exercise changed my life with COPDLast year at this time, I finished radiation treatment for prostate cancer. I also have severe COPD. Both of those conditions really...reactions6comments
