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		<title>Dead Last</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got my finishers certificate and the official results book for the 2010 Boston marathon in the mail today. Out of the 23,177 people who started the race, only 22,721 actually finished it. And yours truly has the distinction of being the 22,721st person to cross the finish line. In other words&#8230;. I finished the race [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Mountain climbing for me :-(</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like I jumped the gun on this one. After polling my family, friends and doctors, and after reading up on high altitude hiking, Ive decided to heed some good advise for a change and will not be participating in the Mt Evans COPD Challenge hike. The elevation just makes it too risky for someone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/no-mountain-climbing-for-me/</link>
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		<title>Recovering Sugar-holic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you might recall, about a month ago I switched to an all organic, non-pesticide treated diet. What you might not know, is at about the same time, I also began to reduce my sugar consumption. I&#8217;m slowly weaning myself off one of the most additives compounds known to man. Yes me, Mr. Candy man, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/recovering-sugar-holic/</link>
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		<title>Double Whammy Asthma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often find it frustrating that here I am, a life long asthmatic, a Respiratory therapist and an asthma educator, yet still unable in normal conversation, to describe what makes my type of asthma so different from others. When asked to define asthma in general, I usually give the spiel about how asthma is an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/double-whammy-asthma/</link>
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		<title>Be an RCP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this nifty little pin the California RCP board sent me&#8230; At first I thought they sent it to me for putting in 25 years of devoted service to the profession, but it turns out that they sent these pins out to every licensed RCP ( Respiratory Care Practitioner) to commemorate 25 years of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/be-an-rcp/</link>
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		<title>I think I&#8217;ll go climb a REAL mountain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How&#8217;s this for a view! In just a few weeks , if all goes as planned, I hope to be standing on that very same rock with a half a dozen of my COPD friends. The brainchild of my Boston marathon walking partner Mike Mc Bride, the &#8220;COPD Mt Evans Challenge&#8221; as he calls it, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/i-think-ill-go-climb-a-real-mountain/</link>
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		<title>Organic Dairy Question</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might remember a couple weeks ago I wrote a post about switching to an all Organic diet?    Well, someone left a comment that raised some very interesting ethical questions regarding the treatment of sick organic dairy animals. Because I&#8217;m fairly new to the whole organic food thing, I decided to contact one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/organic-dairy-question/</link>
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		<title>Annual Asthma Report Card</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been almost a year since Ive updated my asthma status. Here&#8217;s the latest report card. For the year, I give myself a C + In general my lung function has only declined a couple percent which is good. The problem of course, is that when you&#8217;re down in the lower ranges like I am, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/annual-asthma-report-card/</link>
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		<title>A Fathers Day Reunion 50 years in the making.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey, I gotta question for you? What&#8217;s the longest length of time you&#8217;ve ever been separated from a loved one until being reunited with them again? 5 years, 10 years, maybe even 20 years? How does four and a half decades sound? About a week ago, my brother and I took a very special trip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/a-fathers-day-reunion-50-years-in-the-making/</link>
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		<title>Going Organic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a question Ive been asking myself a lot lately (thanks to a most cool brother); When it comes to improving my fitness, why should I go through all the pain and sacrifice of exercising my body hard everyday, if I&#8217;m gonna continue to throw toxic chemicals into it? Doesn&#8217;t make much sense.. does it? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/going-organic/</link>
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		<title>My First Adsense Paycheck&#8230;Woohoo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow&#8230;Ive hit the big time! I&#8217;m major player now. A force to be reckoned with. At the top of my game. Watch out world, I&#8217;m going places now! Today I got one of these&#8230; Ben at his finest.That&#8217;s right, my blog is finally paying ME! So after 5 years, I finally reached the $100 threshold [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/my-first-adsense-paycheck-woohoo/</link>
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		<title>Is too much of a good thing, bad?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For 5 years now, I&#8217;ve been heralding the benefits of daily exercise in people who have severe lung disease. That message is plastered all over this blog, and I believe is the reason that Ive lived so long. But wait, just as with every other facet of this frustrating disease, there&#8217;s a catch 22. While [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/is-too-much-of-a-good-thing-bad/</link>
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		<title>Born again Respiratory Therapist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following up on a previous post, I&#8217;m happy to announce that the state RCP board has accepted my RCP renewal application. I now have a valid license to practice Respiratory Care in the State of California. Yah&#8230;.I&#8217;m legal again! I have no plans on ever returning to the traditional work force as an RT, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/born-again-respiratory-therapist/</link>
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		<title>The letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I receive of dozens of letters from people living with really bad asthma, but this one really touched me, because the person who wrote it&#8230;.. is only 16 years old. Hey Stephen, Read your website have to say it was quite intriguing! Just want to say you are a hero and a role model for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/the-letter/</link>
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		<title>Hospital survival Kit, don&#8217;t leave home without it.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is what I call my Hospital survival kit. Always packed and on standby 24/7, my HSK is a small carry bag I keep in my bedroom, that&#8217;s filled with everything I might need for a hospital stay. If (or when) I get sick and have to go to the hospital, all I have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/hospital-survival-kit-dont-leave-home-without-it/</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s a lot going on in our small airways</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably heard me talk about the &#8220;small airways&#8221; in our lungs, but you might be surprised on just how small they actually are. Here&#8217;s a color enhanced photo of the inner surface of our smallest airways taken with a scanning electron microscope. The hollow cavities you see are the alveoli ,this is where the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/theres-a-lot-going-on-in-our-small-airways/</link>
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		<title>6th incarnation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you&#8217;re new here, you probably noticed that I changed the appearance of my blog&#8230; (slightly). This is the 6th makeover I&#8217;ve done in almost as many years. Hope it looks OK. To be honest, I was getting really tired of all those blue colors in the old layout, and the core theme itself, was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/6th-incarnation/</link>
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		<title>University of Pittsburgh Newsletter May 2010</title>
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		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/university-of-pittsburgh-newsletter-may-2010/</link>
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		<title>ah&#8230;.the age innocence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Me and my brother at age 5. Can you tell which one is me ? (girlfriend ) You might like these posts as well:There's a lot going on in our small airwaysA Fathers Day Reunion 50 years in the making.Needle in a haystackBy Blogsdna]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/ah-the-age-innocence/</link>
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		<title>World Cup Racewalking Championships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dave Mc Govern who will be competing this weekend at the Chihuahua Mexico. Dave will be doing the 50K race &#8230;.that&#8217;s 31 miles! I was checking the local weather report for Chihuahua, and the temperature for the 50K at race time on Saturday morning is expected to be 70 degrees F, and heating up to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://breathinstephen.com/world-cup-racewalking-championships/</link>
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