Re: I Remember

They have breathing exercises you can do that with help with the wheezing.
the asthma center will have them. they might even have a tube with a ball in
it that you suck the air out of it and it is suppose to work. Remember you
were laid up for quite a bit of time with your hip and the more moving you
can do the better it will be on your lungs.
--
:) Lynn VOF+ Leaper
"Everyone seems normal until you get to know them."



"Ian" <sum1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:20080722.0951.7039snz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Yep, I too was for many years lighting up as soon as I woke up in the
morning, then on getting to the kitchen the morning cough would come on
and I'd be spitting up really solid chunks into the sink.
And - after swilling out my mouth with whatever liquid came to hand, I'd
take out a cigarette, light it and stand there puffing away! For some 2
or 3 years I've been saying to myself, Ian, this is really stupid. You're
coughing up ghastly stuff every morning, and then you're breathing in
smoke to produce more of it. Really stupid thing to do, isn't it?
But that addiction was stronger than that inner voice and I kept on
smoking forty or more times a day.
After 15 weeks of not smoking, well my chest is not great but I'm not
coughing up stuff each morning. I go for a chest x-ray today, having seen
the doctor yesterday. He said the chest sounds pretty good but I am
feeling a tightness on the left on breathing in, so he wants to see what
an x-ray will show.
My oxygen level was 95 which is not bad; I'm told almost no one scores
100, that's just an ideal.
I don't get out of breath after only a slight exertion as I was doing
up to about 3 or 4 weeks ago, and that odd weakness and unsteadiness has
gone
altogether. Still eating three times as much as I used to do, too.
So I think I'm in a reasonnably good state of fitness once more.
--
Ian



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