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Can anyone help?

Hi i was just wondering if anyone can help! My dad has been diagnosed with COPD, he was diagnosed about 2 years ago and he is being treated very badly. He went...

Hi i was just wondering if anyone can help! My dad has been diagnosed with COPD,...

paddy03

•12 years ago

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Bathroom blues

aaargh! the hastle.....nothing seems to be straight forward in this bathroom renovation! yesterday after blogging happily about how well it was going, it all...

aaargh! the hastle.....nothing seems to be straight forward in this bathroom ren...

MrsShimmy

•12 years ago

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Railcards

Someone recently asked me about the Disabled Rail Card (sorry - can't find your post) so here are the links. I am linking to both the Disabled and Senior...

Someone recently asked me about the Disabled Rail Card (sorry - can't find your ...

Hidden

•12 years ago

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dionnes blogs

Dinne is in training again, this time for the great north run, she has started blogging again about them for anybody who followed her last blogs.

Dinne is in training again, this time for the great north run, she has started b...

amagran

•12 years ago

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EXPECTORANTS ETC.

I have been taking Benyln,Carvonia,Bronchial balsam trying to loosen things up & get rid of stuff off the old lungs.Nothing seems to work,am i wasting my money...

I have been taking Benyln,Carvonia,Bronchial balsam trying to loosen things up &...

pedantic

•12 years ago

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Progress toward a non-surgical cure

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1101324

denominator

•12 years ago

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Today, realisation set in

Its 01.35 and my door bell rings - i answered the buzzer ( live in a block of flats) and some bloke tells me hes Jim from number 21 and had forgotten his key -...

Its 01.35 and my door bell rings - i answered the buzzer ( live in a block of fl...

Hidden

•12 years ago

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Cough almighty...

Oh boy sat relaxing last night when i did a very slight cough. As usual tissues had to be involved. To my surprise looked down and instead of the normal...

Oh boy sat relaxing last night when i did a very slight cough. As usual tissues ...

BusyBee1968

•12 years ago

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Another piece of my blog roll...

OK, some dust and cobwebs blown out of the system, those baked beans work wonders... I've had a few rough days and I'm still not 100%, but good enough to take...

OK, some dust and cobwebs blown out of the system, those baked beans work wonder...

Gordon57

•12 years ago

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Havent said much about myself so to anyone interested here goes......

I wa diagnosed with COPD about 2 years ago - though I had had warnings for years. A dr. once said to me that there are some who can get away with smoking and...

I wa diagnosed with COPD about 2 years ago - though I had had warnings for years...

Hidden

•12 years ago

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Indacaterol (onbrez) inhaler

Has anybody started using the onbrez inhaler instead of Spiriva Respimat? I seem to have had a rather bad reaction to Respimat and have been looking at what...

Has anybody started using the onbrez inhaler instead of Spiriva Respimat? I seem...

derrylynne

•12 years ago

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Anybody Ever Lied To Get A Job..?

Am seriously thinking of changing jobs before end of the year..Although i like my job,as its physical and outside,i find the winters working outdoors really do...

Am seriously thinking of changing jobs before end of the year..Although i like m...

Hidden

•12 years ago

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Sore behind the ears...

Anyone got any tips for stopping the canula tube making the back of my dad's ears sore? Macmillan nurse suggested wrapping gauze round it but just wondered if...

Anyone got any tips for stopping the canula tube making the back of my dad's ear...

anniediv

•12 years ago

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great

Sorry haven't blogged for a few days, been sorting house out for the builders to come in and do some work for us. I am having a shower put in the downstairs...

Sorry haven't blogged for a few days, been sorting house out for the builders to...

MrsShimmy

•12 years ago

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Blog Problems

Ooh it appears we may have had some problems! Seems ok now though - for the people who've had problems it may be worth reporting it! Cheers Jo

Ooh it appears we may have had some problems! Seems ok now though - for the peo...

Jo_BLFHelpline

British Lung Foundation•12 years ago

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BLOG READING

looks like we are back up & running folks x

pedantic

•12 years ago

1 Reply

SOP = short of blogshelp please im blogless and need my daily in takeps im glad to see byes are not forever ,glad you are back

hello HELLO WHERE IS EVERY ONE Iget scared when im left alone !

brujapatsy

•12 years ago

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Oxygen

Hello everyone, hope you're all well. Just thought I'd say that my oxygen concentrator arrived today :( Just wondered if anyone else uses the machine and...

Hello everyone, hope you're all well. Just thought I'd say that my oxygen conce...

Mmike110

•12 years ago

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does steam bath help lungs of emphysemic person?

julierad

•12 years ago

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blogless, we have a new disease

amagran

•12 years ago

9 Replies

cant get on blogs

I cant get on any blogs at all today or tonight, i can seem to get on msgs sent straight to me, so anyone who has posted a msg to me on any blogs, i cant read...

I cant get on any blogs at all today or tonight, i can seem to get on msgs sent ...

San15

•12 years ago

1 Reply

Irritating cough

Thanks to everyone who answered my question. My husband does use liquid morphine which helps him with the pain when coughing. If anyone suffers with a...

Thanks to everyone who answered my question. My husband does use liquid morphin...

grahamsgirl

•12 years ago

Be the first to reply

Is anyone having trouble like me getting the blogs up.

pollyjj

•12 years ago

14 Replies

Amazing

Laura Trott Two olympic gold medals, despite having asthma

MickB

•12 years ago

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Rehab started......

Had my first rehab session today.im afraid to say I feel a bit of a cheat really. Lots of people on oxygen,and with sticks,or trollies.i don't have to use any...

Had my first rehab session today.im afraid to say I feel a bit of a cheat really...

Fantasy3

•12 years ago

7 Replies

Me and my o2

I've actually managed to get out and about a few times with the portable LOX (liquid Oxygen) flask! This is after being hospitalised last month with pneumonia,...

I've actually managed to get out and about a few times with the portable LOX (li...

robevanz

•12 years ago

7 Replies

Irritation

Good afternoon everyone My husband has IPF and constantly coughs due to an irritation (not me) Has anyone found anything that has helped them.

Good afternoon everyone My husband has IPF and constantly coughs due to an ir...

grahamsgirl

•12 years ago

9 Replies

Anybody Have Anything Good/Nice/Happy Going On..?????

Please do share with us..Be nice too come on here and read something nice and positive for a change despite our illnessess.. I know from the posts whats...

Please do share with us..Be nice too come on here and read something nice and po...

Hidden

•12 years ago

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COME BACK GORDON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well my dear you can see how many friends have posted on your Bye blog imploring you not to leave. Man, you're so popular and so well-loved, you just CAN'T...

Well my dear you can see how many friends have posted on your Bye blog imploring...

Hidden

•12 years ago

1 Reply

ageism, and cost cutting

HYi you may remember graham from the nhs site, hello all. i was then waiting to move and have now complted that, never again, but now on level ground in a...

HYi you may remember graham from the nhs site, hello all. i was then waiting to...

graham2

•12 years ago

3 Replies

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All posts for August 2012

Can anyone help?

Bathroom blues

Railcards

dionnes blogs

EXPECTORANTS ETC.

Progress toward a non-surgical cure

Today, realisation set in

Cough almighty...

Another piece of my blog roll...

Havent said much about myself so to anyone interested here goes......

Indacaterol (onbrez) inhaler

Anybody Ever Lied To Get A Job..?

Sore behind the ears...

great

Blog Problems

BLOG READING

SOP = short of blogshelp please im blogless and need my daily in takeps im glad to see byes are not forever ,glad you are back

Oxygen

does steam bath help lungs of emphysemic person?

blogless, we have a new disease

cant get on blogs

Irritating cough

Is anyone having trouble like me getting the blogs up.

Amazing

Rehab started......

Me and my o2

Irritation

Anybody Have Anything Good/Nice/Happy Going On..?????

COME BACK GORDON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ageism, and cost cutting

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