Desmond Sequeira

Coughing, on the insistence of my wife, is what got me to see my GP who sent me to a hospital and the chest unit there diagnosed I had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.  In the UK with free health coverage, seemingly an endless amount of testing follows, in my case twice a year each at two different hospitals.  Now twelve years on in my 92nd year o…[Read more]

My pulmonary fibrosis was diagnosed in 2011 when I was already 80 and although I knew via Google that I had a life span 2 – 5 years, I did not take it too seriously.  Since then two hospitals have been checking and testing me twice a year and although there was a slow but steady deterioration, it didn’t prevent me from participating in all my ac…[Read more]