Hi, my name is Kathleen and I have COPD. I've had it for over four years and still smoke but, plan on quitting on the 17th of this month. Find it harder to walk for any distance at all like going to the store or other places within walking distance. Have a boyfriend who is also quitting with me and we're engaged to get married in a few years been with him for three years in Feb. I also have a cat whos name is midnight or little boy boyfriends name is Danny and he is a great guy I love him so much is is just everything I wanted someone to be.
Kathleen
Kathleen
We are so glad to have you here. You will not see a lot of action on this page, so please join other groups and start making friends. You can add me to your friends list because already we have something in common.
My COPD is as bad as yours. For the past few years my husband has had to do all the grocery shopping and walking the dog because I just can't do it.
I will tell you one thing............I am only on my 10th day and I no longer sit up sleeping. I used oxygen just at night time and I haven't used it since Fri. I have not heard any wheezing in my chest...........I guess in other words..........I feel fantastic.
I started smoking when I was a teen and smoke for over 40 years. I quit ( you must say "stopped") once in 1979, but started back when I started gaining a lot of weight. I worked in a really good restraurant at the time and I just shoveled it in. I know better now what to do.
I don't know where you love but your post is 3:18am..........so I will tell you one other thing.....you will sleep so much better.
You will meet so many fantastic people on become an EX. They are there to help you through the rough times and keep you straight as well. They won't put up with you if you sit on your pity pot, that is for sure~~~~!!!!!
Right before Christmas I woke my husband because I thought I was having a heart attack....it ended up to be pleurisy, but I felt like I had been kicked in the chest by a horse and could not breath. They had to drain my lung and gave my IV pain medication that I never felt.........that truly amazed them (nurses). I stayed that way for a week and thought perhaps that might had been the sign that it was time to QUIT FOR REAL.
I wish you all the luck in the world, because I know what you are living with and it is pure hell.
I will tell you one thing. I have been smoke free for 10 days and went to Sam's Club on Sunday and walked around for over an hour..........and never could have done that in the past.
I wish you the best of success. I will be here if you need me. I am on this site every single day, every chance I have!