Historias compartidas
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Stephanie M. For nearly a year, I was short of breath but always told I had a cold, bronchitis or walking pneumonia—that my lungs sounded clear, and was given round after round of antibiotics, steroids, cough suppressants etc.
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Stephanie H. This story is about my mother who was diagnosed with COPD. She was not aware of having this chronic disease until the year of 2011.
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Stephanie G. My grandmother was diagnosed with lung cancer at 83, 40 years after she stopped smoking.
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Stephanie F. Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is among the most feared diagnoses. It is one of the deadliest cancers in the United States and one with a poor prognosis. I do not know how I knew that. It could have been from knowing people who died of small cell or f
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Wesley F.
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Tom M. I was diagnosed with IPF in 2019 and have been wearing oxygen for a little over a year now.
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Terril M. I come from a family scarred by IPF. I'm a nurse practitioner, who noticed clubbing of the fingers, when my dad, a lifelong smoker, was struggling to breath. I assumed he had COPD, but his doctor told him it was IPF. He died in 1998.
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Staci D. My mother passed away of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis a few days ago. She had it for a few years, but was misdiagnosed. If only I had gotten involved in her care sooner, maybe I could have helped.
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Rachel S. At the age of 4, I was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. My parents and I were told that this disease generally presents itself in either of two forms: one that attacks primarily the joints or a systemic version that attacks the internal
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Pam C. I started coughing from what I thought was a virus in November 2011. It never went away.
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Ron S. Five years ago, I started noticing that I was a little short of breath for a man in his early 60s, but I contributed it to being a little out of shape.
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Robert W. I’m 89 years old and I developed a hacking cough when I was 88 years old, so I went on esbreit and had to stop because of side effects.
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Mike O. I was diagnosed with IPF December 2014, waiting on a double lung transplant list.
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Mike L. I was diagnosed in June of 2015. I am a 65 year old male. I have been on oxygen for 1 year. My mother died from the disease at the age of 79 in 2002.
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Me;isa K. My dad, David Joe Walker passed away from Pulmonary Fibrosis on April 16, 2019. He was diagnosed about four years ago. He was also a lung cancer survivor.
