This is the final post in my ongoing series on the stages of grieving for COPD caregivers. It's been a tough road as you've moved through your grief about your loved one having the terminal illness of COPD. You've experienced tremendous highs and even more intense lows. You've refused to believe the facts, railed against fate, bargained with... Read more
You've just come from your doctor's appointment where you were told some shocking news -- you have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, also known as COPD. It's an incurable, slowly progressive respiratory illness. Though you may have been hearing for years about the dangers of smoking, or noticing that you were getting more and more short of... Read more
This is the fifth post in an ongoing series on the 5-stage grieving process experienced by those caring for a person with COPD. It's not easy being a caregiver for someone with COPD. Watching them slowly lose the person they once were is extremely tough to live through. Losing hope is almost inevitable, at least some of the time.
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This is the fourth post in an ongoing series on the 5-stage grieving process experienced by those caring for a person with COPD. Watching someone you love die by inches isn't easy, is it? So, it's only natural to do everything you can to try to change their fate (and yours).
The next stage in the grieving process, after anger, is often... Read more
When a person with COPD is told that his or her lung condition has deteriorated to the point that supplemental oxygen is needed, feelings of despair and fears of being trapped at home begin to creep in. After all, if you need oxygen to breathe, then how will you ever leave home without that big, heavy tank sitting in your living room?
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