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He has a bad heart..not COPD!!old next door neighbour was in his forties, and had a dodgy heart
He has a bad heart..not COPD!!old next door neighbour was in his forties, and had a dodgy heart
Non-committal, meaningless, and rubbish.
So is cycling,running or any vigorous exercise!!!.Nout to do with having an abnormal lifeOne of the symptoms of COPD is "shortness of breath".
Neither can I...but i do not have COPDCould he run? No.
If it is all the same with you,I would rather not be lieing in a hospital bed this time next week with a bag over my head trying to breathe under water....If it does not bother you, or seeing your loved ones like that...Fine.AND...I do watch out for the bus...Always....Bit trickier with COVIDSomeone on here in an earlier post mentioned about dying in a hospital bed gasping for breath.
Edit: this rant is not really aimed at you.
One in a hundred dying (in addition to normal in a short time) is quite a lot. But if it were just those 1% dropping dead that'd only be 500,000 or so Brits dead. However it isn't just 1 in 100 getting sick and dying. Around 8% need to be admitted to hospital.
That's 4,000,000 people needing to go to hospital above normal. We have around 140,000 beds. Even if the rest of the country stopped being ill for any reason during the time there wouldn't be anywhere near enough beds. At that point you have much higher death rates from Covid-19 as people who could be saved with minor treatment can't get it, so they die.
Then because there isn't enough beds people with other illnesses die.
Then because NHS staff get infected and have to go off sick, or have died, there isn't enough staff. So more patients die.
Then, when people really get scared because people are literally dying in the streets the really bad **** kicks off.
If you do nothing then the results will be biblical. If you do a little then they'll be terrible. You have to go over the top or it gets out of control insanely fast.
Could it be terrible? Absolutely. Will it be, probably not, because we're finally taking suitable measures. It's going to be fascinating looking back at places like the UK and US where we dithered and South Korea where they went straight to 11.
It's going to get worse before it gets better. Two or three weeks of the death rate climbing and then perhaps it will start to level and drop.
Copd..asthma...
Alsorts....leads to shortness of breath....for a 75 year old COPD sufferer who gets up at 5am everyday walks the dog...does the housework...sews...swims...etc in a day....THAT is what I call a normal life....What is your definition of ""normal"" at 75?????
He has a bad heart..not COPD!!
It's a bit of sh't future at the moment, we may well look back at the noughties as the golden years.
Had. Massive and fatal heart attack before 50....He has a bad heart..not COPD!!
Yep, with you on that and am sorry to hear too your arthritis. Long term illness with me too, limited what I can do and it did stop me doing a few things but it does become the new norm. As long as enjoying life I say, then on a winnerNever let anyone say I got in the way of nitpicking. But on the 'normal life' thing I can contribute. I got a diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis after some niggling pain kept building up. I went from a very active person to having crippling pain doing a weekly shop. Meds have brought it under control and I now live a 'normal' life.
I can't run anymore, my grip is pathetic so I can't sail or climb, i get sick easily, I have to take so many pills sometimes I have to do two batches or the urge to chew them is overpowering. It has very little in common with my pre-illness life, it still feels wrong. But it's within the margin of 'Normal'. It's not normal to run a Marathon, now I'm normal. It's not normal to do endurance hiking events, now I'm normal. Normal can be pretty ****.
/SelfPity
But on the plus side, I can now pop to the local shops to get hand soap and toilet roll... Oh, hang on a second!
Sorry to hear you're keeping me company.Yep, with you on that and am sorry to hear too your arthritis. Long term illness with me too, limited what I can do and it did stop me doing a few things I always enjoyed but it does become the new norm. As long as enjoying life I say, then on a winner