Tonya Worley

I had to get my throat stretched.

I am late as usual lol… I am still trying to figure the forum out as far as the notifications so I will not miss the new posts it seems I still am late or I just accidently run up on a post such as this one.

So many illnesses affect us emotionally and it can throw any dormant mental health issue into fast forward if they had mental health…[Read more]

Amy, could you as a nurse explain what your mom’s experience with IPF has been like for us that really have no idea what to expect and fortunately I haven’t experienced too much bad at least I have been able to deal with it so far i.e. the changes in my health since diagnosis.

I responded to this, but I decided to make my response a topic instead regarding “Normal Progression” in a topic I will call “Is Normal Progression a convenient answer or a Copt-out for the IPF/PF Patient?”  so maybe it will bring on converation about this overused response we get from our doctors.

Wow, I ask myself the same question so I don’t have any answer but I too have gone from a dry cough to a thick plug of mucus that takes me a minute or so of coughing in efforts to get it up.  I begin to panic when I can’t get it up but so far within at most 2 minutes, I can get it up or situated wherein it doesn’t bother me.  It’s not so much i…[Read more]