Was talking to my friend the other night and he listened to me wheezing and coughing and asked me how long that had been going on. A couple weeks I told him. Actually it has been about a month now that I think of it.
Somewhere in our eighty minute talk he brought up something called COPD. I'd never heard of it. So, I looked it up in Google and found:
"COPD stands for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease:
- Chronic means long-term — people live with COPD for many years
- Obstructive means decreased airflow in and out of the lungs
- Pulmonary refers to your lungs — it includes all the tubes that take in air through your mouth and nose and into your lungs
- Disease means illness"
I am slowly getting better, I think it is a case of the dang flu or cold that I had earlier. But I will keep an eye on it. Seems like it takes a long time to get over stuff that lasted a couple days when I was younger.
So, if you cough and wheeze a lot, click on the above link and see if COPD might be what you have. All the time, something new to worry about. Let us hope neither of us have it!
Ken
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