Don't want to bore you, but I smoked from the age of 18 until I was 58. Forty years, then quit on September 29, 2000. This September, 29th, will be 14 years without a single puff. But I live in a house with my daughter and her husband; both smokers. I moved in with them in 2010 when my daughter became disabled and the son-in-law was already on disability. Pooling our money, we made do until the daughter got some disability started in 2012. It was a bit tough. I'm on Social Security. Retired in 2004. I had some, but not bad, breathing problems before moving in here. I don't know if moving in with them made my breathing worse or not. When I sold the home back in Texas in late 2010, I built a bedroom for myself onto the house with its own heating and cooling. I'm now using inhalers twice a day and oxygen when I'm sleeping at night. If I go walking, I carry oxygen with me and use it most time. I do most of my walking on the treadmill in my bedroom with oxygen. I have an oxygen concentrator by my bed. I can go to the store and do the shopping for several hours if I don't hurry without oxygen. I'm hoping by next spring, I've used the treadmill enough to build myself up enough to get out with metal detectors and have some fun. At present, I only get out in the yard here at the house for maybe 20 or 30 minutes at a time.
If you ever get down this way, give me a holler. We get together for a cup of coffee! Red
