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Hi I'm Tracy, sorry to hear what your going through, I understand as iv been there twice , I'm still getting a eye kept on new nodule for growth fingers crossed it doesn't grow, you'll be in shock just now the word cancer itself is scary , but every1 on this group is going thro or has been thro the experience so I'm sure there's plenty of people can answer any questions you got, if u read my profile page  you'll see how far iv came x

Feel free to message any time x

Does it ever get easier to breath? I feel I could breath easier before the surgery with a collapsed lung then I can now.. I am tempered to buy one of the small oxygen tanks off amazon. Cause I'm struggling to sleep that lot and when ya feel tired makes it hard to want to get up and move about..

Hi. Are you going for walks as once I started walking my breathing got so much better? Julie 

I'm walking around in the house and I'm winded alot I havent gone outside much as it getting cooler and I used to be prone to chest infections I dont want to get sick.. I just want to feel like walking more ..I want to feel normal

Until I started going out walking, taking it slowly by small distances at a time to increase slowly I couldn’t breath around the house but unfortunately unless you increase your walking & build your other half of lung up it won’t get better to breath. I have arthritis & COPD as well so walking is not easy but I couldn’t cope with the breathlessness so pushed myself & it was definitely worth it. Julie 

I'm gonna try it cause I'm loosing my mind. I'm exhausted all the time.and breathless and that's doing my head in.. thank you for your encouragement..

Honestly you will see a big improvement if you just do a small distance & build it up

I hope so cause I cant take much more of this it's got me real down.

I found being stuck in hard but I can honestly say other than on a bad day probably my COPD you would not know I had had half a lung removed