Shared Stories
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Sue H. Growing up in the 1950s in a house where my dad and his father smoked unfiltered cigarettes caused me to have yearly bouts with respiratory infections and allergies.
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Sue G. My husband has struggled over the years with several health issues beginning with COPD (after smoking for 35 years and then quitting in 2002).
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Su W. I never thought I would be a lung cancer patient having never smoked and done all the "right" things to be healthy and live a long life. So you can imagine the shock of hearing "you have stage IV lung cancer" three years ago.
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Steven L. My story is about "Rinky Dink", my mom who passed away on 4/13/14 from Lung Cancer, I walk in memory of her. She was an amazing person not because she was my mom, because she was so caring and gave so much for her family. To this walk is in memory o
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Susan B. I was first diagnosed with emphysema in 2007/2008. I had been having some issues with pleurisy. As anyone who has had it knows, it can be very painful.
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Valerie L. I was diagnosed with COPD gold standard 3 in 2018 and retired due to disability.
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April A. In the fall of 2018 I started to become short of breath and developed a cough. I was a healthy 43 year old and on no medication. I had only been to the hospital to have my 2 children.
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Melissa E. I never could breathe after a bout of killer influenza as a toddler.
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Thomas A. I had a form of throat cancer with a tumor, due to 55 years of smoking. The had to remove my voice box and part of lymph nodes to eliminate the cancer.
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Susan B. I had almost never been sick in my life until, at 60, I developed asthma/sinusitis.
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Sura A. This is the story of my father with COPD.
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Sara C. The Lung Association has been a great help to me, and I’m spreading the word.
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Patricia K. My story begins with my husband, Keith. He was diagnosed with COPD in 2011 and only a short time was then on oxygen 24/7.
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Olivia R. Have you ever met someone so full of life, so vibrant, so generous, kind, and warm-hearted whose only wish for her life was to become a doctor to help people like her? Erin is that person.
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Melisa P. I’m 46 years old and have had asthma all my life.
