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Spirometry Test today.

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The test showed that I have the lungs of....'a man who died yesterday'

NOT TRUE, they wouldn't do the test because I'm still on antibiotics and steroids. Try again end of August. Inhalers back to what they were before the recent disastrous change.

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Katinka467 years ago

Frustrating. Mine usually come up as those of a ninety year old. Someone once said the computer comes up with this silly stuff to frighten people into stopping smoking. Bit maddening for non-smokers.

newlands7 years ago

Loved the comment "lungs of a man that died yesterday "still smiling think it's so funny

Take care

Dorothy xx

• in reply tonewlands7 years ago

You have to have COPD to see the funny side.

sassy597 years ago

Glad you got your inhalers back Don. Pete has hospital this afternoon with lung doc so we will see how that goes.

Take care xxxx

• in reply tosassy597 years ago

Thanks Sassy. Fingers crossed for Pete then, eh?

sassy59• in reply to7 years ago

Definitely Don xx 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼😀

7 years ago

Lol you don't sound ready for a wooden suit just yet Don ...cant stand theses stupid tests we have to do ...its how you feel inside that matters happy travels xxx

7 years ago

I promised my dog I wouldn't kick the bucket until she did and she's only 10 and in pretty good nick.

skischool7 years ago

i have been told that i have the lungs of a 90 yrs old man with severe copd?so does that now make me approximately 180 years old?I promised Scruffy cat that she wouldn't outlive me,probably why she spends so much time hiding.xx

7 years ago

Hi Don, today us bronchs don't get such things as stages, lung age assessments and predictions because we are the 'floaters' and not high status enough to give governments kudos when they acknowledge us.

Mind you it's probably a good thing they stay away from it. I have a letter written to my Mother in 1956 after a bronchoscopy. It states that 'the damage to this child's lungs is so extensive that she will not be expected to survive another infection'. Brilliant predicting hey what!

7 years ago

sorry, it was a bronchogram in those days-I ended up with pneumonia from the fluid they pumped into my lungs.

7 years ago

I always took it that I had bronchitis from back in the 1950s. I bought some red medicine from the chemist, Benalyene or some name like that, and it worked ....until the next time. I rarely went to the doctors but one night in 2007 I went to bed in a room with a new carpet it in and found I could not exhale, 999 job. Four days in hospital and told I had COPD. I still feel the same as I did with my bronchitis but more often, but no red medicine now, there's a whole range of different stuff.

It's like when you used to go to the shop for a loaf of white bread in the 1940s or earlier. You asked for a white loaf, was given it, and home you went. Now there are two or three aisles of different white breads with crowds of people trying to decide which one to buy. I'm a simple man of simples tastes who finds most situations are made far more complicated than they need be. I suppose I'm lucky to be alive in the circumstances. 🙄

7 years ago

That's frustrating for you Don! Apparently I have the lungs of a 114 year old. Still looking for all those extra birthday gifts that I haven't found yet..... 😉

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