Exercise, Is It Benefical?

The answer is yes, yes and most assuredly so if like me you have COPD(Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) .Cigarettes are the main reason I have COPD, I started smoking in my early teens and it’s only because of the first bout with pneumonia that I started down the path of giving up smoking

The second bout of pneumonia caused a 7 day hospital stay during which I received lots of steroids to kill the infection. I was then transferred to a skilled care center for a 13 day stay(Which was actually supposed to be 14 days, but why that happened is mostly due to poor record keeping by the facility). There I had to participate in various types of exercise which at the time due to my condition was the last thing I wanted to be doing

After finally getting back to my abode, I received a phone call from the office of the lung Doctor and was given an appointment time to see the Dr. During this time I was most fortunate to be cared for both by my sister and Public Health persons who did various things to aid in my recovery. My sister bought groceries, did my laundry and any other cleaning and most importantly just conversed with me. The public health people(nurses and therapists)made sure I was taking my medicines, had me do exercises(which I still thought was a waste of time) and I even received visits from persons who’s duty it was to bath me.

You never realize how quickly your body can turn on you or how weak you are till you look back and realize it was a real effort just to locate and pick up the phone, or go to the bathroom, or how much your breathing would increase just by lying down to sleep(for a fair period of time I didn’t lie down at the normal pillow height to sleep and instead used 3 pillows)

It ‘s now some 18 months later and largely due to great people at West Coast Therapy( a physical therapy place that specializes in rehabilitating those those whose pulmonary problems for whom MD’s have prescribed exercise, along with medication to control various health problems that I can say that I actually enjoy exercise and show up there 5 days out of the 7 days in a week..

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