Posted 9/28/2015 10:04 PM (GMT 0)
I remember when my doctor unceremoniously told me I had c.o.p.d., just as he jabbed me in the right shoulder with a steroid injection, then turned to the nurse and told her to put me on the nebulizer. The machine was in a different room. I was crying from the excruciating pain in my shoulder, she shoves this apparatus into my hand, tells me to breathe in the mist until it stops and walks out of the room. I was left there, all alone, in pain and in fear. She didn't even offer me tissues! Horrifying experience. No one said a word to me when I left. No referral to a pulmonologist, nothing!
I hope you have better experiences than I did. I've not had any other problems with my lungs since. I believe I was so sick that year because of the flu vaccine and the pneumonia vaccine the same doctor had insisted on giving me! I never went back.