Adendum to Don't quite know where to start, lungs

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

Well, I forgot to mention another problem I am having. I have pretty weak

lungs. Both of my parents smoked, and I had bronchitis several times as a

child. Then as an adult, I live for several years near a hospital

incinerator with no blocks on the garbage they were sending into the air.

I had several bouts of pneumonia while I lived there. I didn't learn

about the incinerator until a few years after I had moved.

A couple of years ago, I checked the filter in my swamp (or evaporative)

cooler, only to discover that it was full of mold, and I had been

breathing it. I had been getting a progressively worse cough during that

summer, and that cough has never entirely cleared up, Then about 5 weeks

ago, I became extremely sick, so much so that my son rushed me to the

emergency room where they did several respiratory sessions with me before

they would allow me to go home. That took almost four weeks to fully

clear up. Well, I'm not sure that it has fully cleared up.

I cough on a regular basis, and my coughs are ugly hacking things that

give others the shudders. I have almost never heard anyone with a cough

that sounds like mine, (AND I DON'T SMOKE, AND NEVER HAVE!!!!)

Thanks again,

Terri Lynne

________________________________________________________________

The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand!

Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER!

Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!