Hi,
This is the first time I have gotten a message from this list although I
subscribed several weeks ago. Is it not a very active list? I have emphysema and
have heard of a lung surgery called Laproscopic (SP??) lung reduction. The
closest place to me that is doing this would be St. Louis, Mo. and I live in
Kansas. They were looking for test subjects earlier in the year. Half of their
subjects would get the surgery, the other half would only get breathing
exercises and one didn't know which treatment they would have. As I understand
it, they don't know what the long term effects of this surgery are. Does anyone
have any more information on this? I would like to know if people who have had
this done would reccomend it.
I smoked for many years and did manage to quit but it was hard. I think one
just has to make up their mind and do it. I know a woman who smokes while she is
on oxygen and am very supprised she hasn't blown herself up yet.
Mary Bransford
Makami's Chins
makamis@...