G'day everyone. All forums become quiet from time to time. Perhaps we all
coincide with each other with periods of inactivity or lack of creativity.
Maybe it's even the change of seasons! I belong to an Aussie wide group
called "The lungaroos". We chat once a week and posts are at least daily.
Members range from severe asthmatics to transplantees and our conditions are
legion. Emphysema is of course the most common, but we have people with
Alpha 1 and cystic fibrosis as well as some of the rarer and more exotic (?)
lung conditions. As well as exchanging news and info about our health and
treatments, we help link people, have an occasional meeting if several
people are within reasonable travel distance, and host or visit each other
if any members are travelling interstate. We get to know each other really
well by including some of the highlights or low lights of our daily lives,
humour or domestic trivia. Personal 'stories', poems, homilies etc have to
have "off-topic" written in the subject line so that anyone so inclined can
skip/delete them. We even had an internet marriage where a member met an
American lady online, she came to Oz, he had a lung transplant, they got
married and have just moved over to the States and last I heard were
tobogganing in the SNOW!!! (If you only knew the climate he left behind <G>)
Personally, I don't feel that Becca needs to leave the group. We find that
partners and carers are very important to us online as well as off. It gives
us/them an indepth insight into each others problems and feelings. I know I
should post more. If i were an organised person ............. I have 2
teenage daughters and a hubby whom I never managed to housetrain to any
degree. Successfully raising our son did not prepare me for ditto with
daughters! One is in the throes of first love and (coincidentally!) seems to
have just discovered the TELEPHONE. Now, instead of the two fighting over
who is to use the internet, older fights to keep the internet free from us
all so she can moon on the phone. Why is it that love has to start
interfering with their lives during their most important student years? It
should wait until they are all educated, left home and pursuing lucrative
careers.She is about to take part in a debutante ball (this is prob = to
your senior prom) and it has been a steep learning curve for me (as well as
hubby's wallet!) I swear I have aged several years in the last month, and
there is still a week- the worst week- left to go. I told her she would
either have to re-use the deb dress for her wedding dress, or she would have
to elope <G>.

Happy Breathing, Heather