Thank you for taking the time to write, Suquamish – and you are young at only 52 to have COPD. I’m sure there are other young ones with COPD who live to be retired and ancient without adding more diseases. They keep moving as best they can, get good medical care, an exercise program and good nutrition too can overcome almost anything.
What does your doc say about the x-rays?
The pain is in my lower legs – not lungs and I’m one of those COPDers who gathered all these other medical conditions after COPD.
Venous Stasis Dermatitis – Lymphedema – Cellulitis – when I’m not careful enough about sodium and wearing support stockings. This time though, thanks to Mellissa’s teaching and my husband’s help they didn’t swell, crack open and leak for about a year and a half. The condition is chronic but I learned more good lessons to keep this from happening again through checking labels more carefully on everything I eat or drink. Moreover, this too will pass – so will the pain.
The neat thing Suquamish – you gave me another idea. You are young. There have to be other people out there who would gladly give living with COPD and heart worthy tips to other COPDers. Working full time, you probably aren’t able to attend the monthly afternoon Harrison Medical Center/Better Breathers educational classes at Harrison Silverdale. However ….
Would you be interested in an evening support group of like-minded people who not only have lung or heart disease they are living life to the fullest in spite of it and want to share what has worked for them?
We should have such a support group in Silverdale. No gloom & doom – no cost – just patients sharing what works for us.
What do you think? Would Tuesday evenings from 7 – 8 pm work for you? Occasionally we could have speakers willing to donate their time to help educate us too.
Suquamish – Thanks for reading my posts and hope they haven’t been gloomy and doomy for you or anyone – I didn’t meant them to be. This pain will pass when my lower legs get ‘normal’ again and I take proper care of them – including the support stockings and no more high sodium diet sodas.
I’m open to any suggestions for a meeting place that will allow COPDers (lung and heart folks) to meet on a monthly basis in the evening for an hour…
BTW: I may be moaning and groaning about pain from my legs but it doesn’t change my plans to make a recumbent trike trip next summer from here to the other Washington for COPD.
Thanks… Sharon
One Response to “COPD – the beginning. Pain – the end”
- Suquamish Says:
November 2nd, 2011 at 4:11 am
I am sorry Sharon, I guess I am following in your footsteps. The
VA gave me a chest x-ray and it had a white spot on my lung. They
told me to see my health provider (Group Death) I mean Group
Health. They put a clip on my nipple to rule out the phantom shadow
on the lung. Too bad the clip and the white spot both showed up in
different areas. Group Health never diagnosed it at COPD. But a
couple weeks ago when I went in Urgent care and underwent a
breathing treatment the noted COPD in my health chart. I had
another chest xray because of the pain you stated in your post. I
guess it is just the muscles that got strained. I guess there
weren’t any fractures or they would have been noted. I hope you
take care of yourself Sharon, I enjoy reading your post on
Kitsapsun.com. I would like to learn more about COPD from someone
affected by it. I wonder how much longer I will be able to work. I
am just a young guy at 52.
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