On Jul 22, 4:51=A0am, s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ian) wrote:
> Yep, I too was for many years lighting up as soon as I woke up in the
> morning, then on getting to the kitchen the morning cough would come on
> and I'd be spitting up really solid chunks into the sink.
> And - after swilling out my mouth with whatever liquid came to hand, I'd
> take out a cigarette, =A0light it and stand there puffing away! For some
=
2
> or 3 years I've been saying to myself, Ian, this is really stupid.
You're
> coughing up ghastly stuff every =A0morning, and then you're breathing in
> smoke to produce more of it. Really stupid thing to do, isn't it?
> But that addiction was stronger than that inner voice and I kept on
> smoking forty or more times a day.
> After 15 weeks of not smoking, well my chest is not great but I'm not
> coughing up stuff each morning. I go for a chest x-ray today, having
seen
> the doctor yesterday. =A0He said the chest sounds pretty good but I am
> feeling a tightness on the left on breathing in, so he wants to see what
> an x-ray will show.
> My oxygen level was 95 which is not bad; I'm told almost no one scores
> 100, that's just an ideal.
> I don't get out of =A0breath after only =A0a slight exertion as I was
doi=
ng
> up to about 3 or 4 weeks ago, and that odd weakness and unsteadiness has
=
gone
> altogether. Still eating three times as much as I used to do, too.
> So I think I'm in a reasonnably good state of fitness once more.
> --
> Ian
Ian...... having you come here and share your success has been a real
treat.
Thanks!
|
