Guest guest Posted October 28, 2007 Report Share Posted October 28, 2007 For many years, I dreamed of having the health to hike up mountains like I did in my youth. Since I strained to walk up even a slight grade, going up a mountain (well, eastern hills as the westerners would call them) I could only dream. Ten years ago, at age 51, a Doctor said I had the lungs of an 89 year-old and would need oxygen soon. Stop smoking or die he said. I chose to live and did stop smoking and today I think that doctor would take 60 years off his assesment. Just three years ago, with COPD, another doctor told me I could probably not breath well enough to walk on level ground soon and put me on Advair and Spiriva to slow down my deterioration. He also sent me to my allergist who put me on Uniphyl and Xolair for asthma, which I had all my life but just sort of lived with. Two weeks ago I hiked 900 feet up in elevation on a steep and treacherous trail to the top of a mountain in an hour and a half. I could have done more. There I met several serious hikers and climbers ... all of them specimens of the best of physical condition and health. Only then did I realize that I am now one of them. Xolair, Advair, Spiriva, Uniphyl .... I thank them all and I thank my doctors because without them I could only live my dreams in the imaginative world of Second Life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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