Back to the Jurassic

[Alberta56]

A group of friends were asking me about my lung condition on Sunday and one of them said that bronchiectasis sounded like a dinosaur. Since then I've been picturing the Bronchiectasaurus as a fat herbivore lurking in the bushes, trying to avoid the T. Rexes. Its friends are the Measleosaurus and the Whooping Pterosaur. 🦕🦖 😊xxx

[Thepainterswife]

😂🤣 don’t forget the dipotherius and the. TB rex x

[Alberta56 in reply to Thepainterswife]

Poor TB rex. is that why they went extinct?😂😂😂

[peege]

Haha very good Chris. Did you mind though?It reminds me of when asked by a best friend why I was too tired to do anything anymore. I was explaining what CFS is (only because she asked) and how the mitochondria don't work properly, under her breath she said "hyperchondria more like". It still rankles when I think about it as I try quite hard to stay upbeat (pretend to at times) & not moan about my health because unless people experience something it's normal that they don't get it, even grief.

[sassy59 in reply to peege]

Ooooh P, I’m feeling rankled too now. Some people can be a tad insensitive. Xxx🩷💙😍

[Alberta56 in reply to peege]

I didn't mind at all. The people I was with were friendly and genuinely interested in my condition. We just have to keep plugging away at educating people. I like to think I would have given your friend an earful.xxx

[Nula2 in reply to peege]

Grr 😡wish people could understand (or at least accept) how we feel. Walked with a friend and pushed myself too hard by going too far and felt on the verge of collapse. On the way back arrived at her gate and she said come in and sit in the garden and have a rest. I live in the next road. Just needed to get home, sit in the cool and recover in my own way so I declined (very politely). She didn't understand and took it personally. She is a good friend but fit as a fiddle and hasn't got a clue as to how we struggle. xxx

[Alberta56 in reply to Nula2]

Oh gawd! I wish someone would do a telly series- the COPD Detective? People seem to get things into their heads much more easily when they've seen it on the telly. Years ago a few of us were trying to get asbestos banned/ removed from schools. No-one took us seriously until it was on the telly.

[Nula2 in reply to Alberta56]

Good idea 🙂👍. Maybe they should have a story line on one of the soap operas about someone with lung problems. xxx

[jhorsf in reply to peege]

Makes you want to punch them on the nose just to say surely that does not hurt

[Katinka46 in reply to peege]

Apologies for only picking up on your reply now. That is sooo maddening. I hope she is no longer your ‘best’ friend. She doesn’t deserve it. We should lose those who don’t support us. Life is too short to have to cope with such insensitive idiots.

Lots of love

Kate xxxx

[sassy59]

That made me laugh Chris, very good indeed xxx🤗🥰😂

[Alberta56 in reply to sassy59]

I wonder if the Bronchiectasaurus ever met the Anne ,Charlotte or Emily Brontesaurus. Though i believe they were mainly found on windswept moors.

[sassy59 in reply to Alberta56]

Very good 👍😂🩷

[Thepainterswife in reply to Alberta56]

I believe those three were quite an intelligent species much like the Giant Thesaurus 😂 xx

[Alberta56 in reply to Thepainterswife]

Yes indeed, though they did keep some disreputable company.

[Alberta56 in reply to Thepainterswife]

The Giant Thesaurus knows some terrible language.🙄🙄😵🤫

[djbctla]

😂🤣😂🤣🥰🤗🤗

[Alberta56 in reply to djbctla]

Thank you.

[B0xermad]

🤣🤣🤣

[Izb1]

This is funny Alberta and lightens the day 😂🤣😂🤣 x

[Alberta56 in reply to Izb1]

I hope so. We lungies need all the laughs we can get.xxx

[Mellywelly]

🤣🤣🤣 what a cracking imagination you have. My nephew's little one would love that

[watergazer]

🤣 love it. I shall now be thinking of the dinosaur lurking in my lungs xx

[Culy]

Diplocoughupus

[Alberta56]

Brilliant. How many more of these beasts are lurking in the undergrowth?

[Nicholatracy]

Love it 🐞

[Katinka46]

Love it. Definitely evocative. I think I feel a cartoon coming on.

Xxxx

[Alberta56 in reply to Katinka46]

I can't draw for toffee, but I have had a go, mainly in case I can get daughter to have a go. xxx

[O2Trees]

Very funny thread

[Greenthorn]

We shall all rise to sing in chorus

Of the bronchiectasaurus,

How it bothers us and floors us

Can anyone restore us?

[Katinka46 in reply to Greenthorn]

Brilliant! It will go with my cartoon….

[Alberta56 in reply to Greenthorn]

I envisage the bronchiectasaurus as a harmless, rather gormless creature. Its descendants have evolved into something much smaller and troublesome. xxx

[Germantara]

Ooo ya get some odd responses eeee

[kenta]

that did make me smile Alberta56. Thankyou

[Ergendl]

Love it!

[Alberta56]

Thank you. xxx

[jhorsf]

Nurse nurse they are all off their meds again