Why do my lungs get all the care?
I've other organs inside there.
I know it's all because I smoked
And poor old lungs there nearly choked.
So now they reckon they'll pay me back
By causing me to cough and hack.
And give me many sleepless nights
Including exacerbation frights.
I'm sorry lungs I didn't know.
Deterioration was so slow.
Another great ode Don. Keep em coming. Xxxxx
That sums me up to a T Don
What is this Don, 2 poems in one e mail, we are being spoilt and this one just about sums me up x
I write them whilst I’m sniffing up steam from my steamer and I needed an extra long session after finishing a course of Auntie B’s. 😉
Well done, that was brilliant. Did I sound like a Brit? That was a good one, good choice on topic and words👍Thank you. Thank you for sharing and for caring. Thank you for being such a good example to the rest of the elderly community with keeping your mind going even when maybe your body can’t keep up. I do think Midge should get some of the credit though since she’s the one you wake up for ( most likely) every morning. I know this because I have dogs and some days when I don’t feel like getting it together they give me that look or that wet nose or the radar ears and I’m reminded of how much somebody loves me. I have arguments with my girl McKinley about who loves who more. Again thanks.
You sounded better than a Brit, you sounded like a 'Northern' Brit! 😂
😊😊😊x
Thank you, I love your little ditties 🐞
As good as ever x
Hi, that’s a great piece. It reminds me of something along the same lines by Roger McGough I think, called ‘Bits of me’ or something similar.
It starts:
When people ask me how I am,
I say ‘bits of me are fine.’
And they are ...and so on.
And he goes on to explain how it’s the ‘backroom boys with Latin names’ that you cannot see that bang on the ceiling inside etc etc.
Have a read if you can, your poem could go along with it.
Regards
Phil
Thanks Phil40 that's quite a compliment. Not that I knew much about Roger McGough at the time. However I've since read quite a lot about him. I couldn't find the poem that you mentioned, but I enjoyed a lot of others. He is of course of my era, just six years younger (his birthday is two days after mine) and he was born just a few miles away from where I live. I've just seen that 'Bits of Me' is the title of his book, for which I will now go looking. 
I am not that well read myself but I remember that one because I sometimes do answer people who ask how are you today? ‘Bits of me are fine’ and no one has ever asked which bits.
Did he write the poem about parents too? Can’t remember the name of it but the first line is
‘They f@@k you up, your Mum and Dad,
They do not mean to but they do’
and so on.
It’s not awful as it probably looks it’s actually funny and very relevant to me and probably my kids too haha.
Keep writing it’s great.
Shamefully I’ve never heard of this poet, I’ll have to google him. I love the phrase though and am definitely going to have to steal that for an answer to the “how are you today” that I get throughout the day (I work in a shop) Oh, bits of me are fine. I like that 😎
No, that was Philip Larkin. I think it’s called
‘That be the verse’ maybe? I had a memory once. Can’t exactly recall when or what happened to it but I am pretty sure it was there.
And my hearing was too
I had no idea that Roger McGough was one of the group called 'The Scaffold' who I much admired back in 1968 and is so well known by everybody,...but me! Mind you I've no idea how I got into writing poetry or rhymes whatever you want to call them in the first place.
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Brilliant video thank you Don! I learn something new every day here 👍
Had to cancel my Lung function tests
is this cough normal with copd//emphysema
Trouble with inhalers 
Anxiety between CT scans
Decreasing supplemental oxygen…
