Thanks Harpic, yeah my shortness of breath only slows me down a little bit. I just stop and sit down for 5 minutes, I cannot walk and talk at the same time though, I make a right boring fart to go on a stroll with ! I agree with you on the angina though, I break out into an immediate sweat and the n...

I hope that's not too nosy a question.

Send my best wishes to her for me Harpic, yeah I've known you also have ticker troubles and COPD for a while through Kallis.Knowing my heart can be totally fixed and I'll have no cardiac symptoms afterwards, aside, how long was it before your COPD started to progress Harpic ? I can't ask my Mum as w...

Thanks Lesley, what's happened with Kallis ? Hope all is well her end ? KM, sorry to hear about your Dad. My Mum also has end stage COPD, and has done for a long while, but she keeps going and going, and still manages to cook up a roast and feast when I go home to visit. My OAD is only mild, I do ge...

Hope you are all enjoying these fabulous Olympic Games, it's been so exciting hasn't it ? Everything has stalled temporarily, at the beginning of July I was diagnosed with obstructive airways disease, on top of the ticker, they were umming and arring for a little while, but repeated tests are conclu...

Of course I won't do anything ridiculous. I got myself into a state. I am hanging on for every bit of treatment and every word said, as I trust my docs completely, the thought of being transferred elswehere, made me panic. The NHS is falling apart, that is for sure. Some fellow patients I know have ...

And the great news is, I've just become a great uncle. Good news to end a **** day.

I've been doing so well, little tweaks here and there, ra ra ra. Close eye kept on me. And tonight, I have had the most enormous sobbing snot fest, literally that, childhood bawling when you hold your breath, and then ooof ooof ooof a few hours laters still, kind of thing. I never knew I could produ...

Some of you know I'm due to have surgery. This bar steward, twunting, mother ducking government have decided to start winding down the very hospital it is due at. I'm distraught, my friends and family are too. I'm almost ready to finish myself off with the enormous pile of drugs I have at my disposa...

Double Happy. My sister was on the telly earlier as the torch went right through my home town !!!

Harpic, that's a massive shame.

Haahahahahaha. The Stones though, yeah.

Thank you for the music by ABBA. Though at the moment, I'm holding on to the sofa, with my headphones on, listening to some Hard House/Trance !!!!!!

It's probably due to the state of play with me right now but, have any of you been watching ? The dude with Parkinson's taking the torch, totally ruined me today, been watching since Ben Ainslie took control in Cornwall. Every time the next torch bearer takes it, I burst into tears. It's going throu...

You should see my lot of beans, I'm like a Brazilian Maraca of a morning. Still they keep me going, and I really cannot wait to be not needing them all anymore. I've just learned I have aortic stenosis, which means my dodgy leaking valve is starting to stiffen up and close, whence more angina. Not l...