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This recovery is different

If you’re a hardcore asthmatic or COPDer you know the drill. It’s begins with increasing difficulty in breathing, followed by a trip […]

Never let your guard down or be fooled into thinking that you have this disease under total control. No matter how good […]

Most people will tell you Im one of the sweetest, most caring people you’ll ever meet. But make no mistake, when Im […]

Greetings from the 14th floor isolation room a top the Moffitt building at UCSF medical center in San Francisco. Your guest host […]

October has traditionally been a bad month for my asthma (and I’m sure I’m not alone on that), but this is the […]

Suffice it to say, I wasn’t exactly a happy camper when I wrote that last post about a recent hospitalization… I apologize […]

[Not lookin too bad for someone who was on a ventilator just 11 days earlier..eh?] I’m not totally out of the woods […]

So after each bad asthma exacerbation or flare-up, I feel compelled to write something about the recovery phase that follows. You would […]

A lot of attention is focused on what goes on during a severe asthma exacerbation, but very little about what occurs after. […]

Not bad huh? On the other hand , they weren’t exactly quality miles.My legs and feet felt fine, but my darn lungs […]

There will be no “Day 4” . Starting tomorrow , healing and walking will take the place of self pity. Today I […]

Did my first post hospitalization walk today. Boy…….that was a mistake! Right from the git go , things didn’t feel right. I […]

Can anyone out there relate to this? You’ve been home from the hospital for a few days now, and you still can’t […]