Breathing in, breathing out.. without coughing..

After the unimaginable dramatic changes in my life in 2016, I developed a cough.

I coughed throughout the whole day and night. Could hardly sleep.

The doctor gave me an inhaler and when that did not work, a few more. Nothing worked.

I went to the lung doctor, X-rays, blood tests, spirometry.

Turned out I have hyper-reactive bronchi. So I got new inhalers again.. Didn't work.

I had to learn to live with it, my doctor said.

 

But it limited my social life and I got neck and throat pain, my voice sounded weird and I still could not pronounce a whole sentence without coughing. And it was getting worse.

 

Then one day someone asked me, have you been to a speech therapist?

I laughed a little and said it were my bronchi.

But I looked it up on the worldwideweb and guess what?? They have developed a therapy (Speich-C) that sometimes can reduce the cough.

 

So first I had to go to the ENT doctor and she examined me and I turned out to have Vocal Cord Dysfunction. Together with those sensitive bronchi and the enormous stress in my body because of the events in 2016, that kept the cough alive.

 

Now, two months later, the strength and number of cough episodes have dropped from the whole day until a few times a day !! And in progress..

I am so happy with this!

 

I took this picture with my phone when I walked back from the speech therapist, this afternoon.

And when I walked in the cold I had to cough (of course) but only once and short, while two months earlier I could not have walked on because of it.

 

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This photo is a part of my 365-days-project

www.flickr.com/groups/2019_one_photo_each_day/

 

and

www.flickr.com/photos/154293565@N04/albums/72157699321531760

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