Thank you so much, my dear friends. I spent a good share of yesterday afternoon at the pulmonologist's. He is excellent and I trust him, as does my Rog. What he had to say and show me was rather scary, but he has some ideas of how to make it better. I've started on an antibiotic to stave off a cough getting any worse (caught from my dear, darling grandson) and three other drugs which are to help with pressure in the pulmonary arteries, which puts stress on the heart, and a bronchodialator. One of the kind of nice things he said was my lack of feeling like exercising and losing weight were not "virtue" things...there are legitimate physiological reasons.:-)

I am working on visualising myself healthy and healed and giving thanks. At the moment, though, it seems kind of hard to keep the fear at bay. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I have too much to do to leave this all behind.

luvyakat