Page 3 - Banishing Bronchitis by Shelly Manning PDF Free Download
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His job wasn’t to make me better. It was to manage symptoms,
hopefully slow the disease so it didn’t progress quite as quickly
and try to prevent worse conditions – including tumors – from
developing.
Tumors were the biggest worry – the longer I suyered bronchitis
the more likely it was I’d end up with one. And we all know where
that can end.
So they would use drugs to slow it down and try to avoid it
reaching the stage that I’d need surgery.
But the truth for me – and for most bronchitis suyerers – is that as
the disease got worse, the treatments become more invasive –
and more risky.
Turns out, my doctor was wrong on all counts
As you’ll see, I’m an ex-patient now.
My lungs work very nicely, I haven’t had a cough in 8 months – not
so much as even a common cold.
But until I found out just how wrong he was I was scared stiy of
what the future held for me.
Es pecially as we have a family history of CB.
Five people in my family have had it in living memory. One of my
uncles needed surgery in the end and even now is so breathless
he can barely walk. And my grandmother died from it when I was
a teenager.
My own father is currently getting over his own CB – but only
because he’s |nally following the path I took.
And this is the whole point.
There is a pathway out of bronchitis