Hello everyone ,merry xmas and a very happy healthy new yr too 🙂
this is a new pic of me ,its a wk old ( my profile) 5 months after my lung transplant 🙂 I have every singelething to be thankful for this yr ,a 2nd chance at life whats better then that right, To quit smoking after 40 yrs was the hardest thing to ever do in my life,( so I thought ) When I finally made the right choice, I had lost my mom to copd /lung cancer I dedicated my quit to my mother and never smoked again but by then I was at stge 4 already, by may of 2012 my pulmo said i needed To be listed reli soon so i was listed a few das later for lung transplant & unos called me 5 days later,yeaa wow is right, thought I was lookin at 6mo to a yr 🙂 at least but later new it was just a matter of time .was told mayb a few months . So the irish and italian blood came out in me and i fought like a champ:) finaly got a new lung june 28th 2012 :))) I still have my right copd lung which is called my naive lung 🙂 can still get exacerbations, my lung functionwas 17% on oxygen 24/7 / now been off 02 ,off all breathing meds even inhalers since 4th of julyfor 02 breathing meds since july 10th 🙂 ,today my lung capasity is up to 74%..I was in rejection already for a month , im now infection free over a month & on my way to recovery 🙂 I have to watch for ppl with colds, so i have to wear a surgical mask when out , ur cold can be my deadly pnmonia, have to watch foods I eat ,like no red meat , bacteria, no shell fish for a yr, sux for me for xmas eve 🙂 I luv shell fish , but im alive and breathing.. I thank god every single day for my life 🙂 I know many who died waiting or died within 2 yrs time so far I consider me very lucky. well, newbies.. give it up ,think of all the bad places smoking will take you too , ask urself one good thing it does for u, if u say calms me down, not true ,I thought that too but do u relize its stress u more, yea it does, if ur running low onSICKORETTES you panic low on money you borrow to pay back , some borrow from peter to pay paul 🙂 lmao Now that im smokefree im more calmer and alot stronger .. hey life is as good as we make it, so its up to you guys to live or suffer. do you truly no how it feels to suffocate while wide awake, its scary let me tell you ,most of all for my kids to watch me like that , iit wasnt fair to them eaither, so we only live one well sometimes twice LMAO seen something someplace the other day says,, we say we only live once,but not true, we live everyday but we onlly die once!!! think about it..stay smoke free find ur motorvation and make it last a life time :)) its xmas make it a gift you give to urself...LIFE:)) WELL GONA FINSISH MY STRUFFOLIS NOW 🙂 Hope you all have a very happy healthy smokefree breathing easy xmas !! jingle bells jingleeee all the wayyyyyy to the top 🙂
