Become a Patient

Your Life With COPD

As we set out to explore your personal experience with COPD, we will look at…

  • The challenges that the illness presents to you and your family.
  • Common related problems to watch out for.
  • Ideas for what you, your family and your doctor can do to help you to live the life you want to live.

Let’s start by comparing you and your family before and after the illness. Print this page (use "Printer Friendly" version in upper right corner for best results), or use your own paper, and write down the things that are important to you that have changed since you became ill .

Some of these changes may be things you now have difficulty doing or abilities you have lost; others may be ways that COPD has changed the way you look at your life, some even for the better (for example, a new appreciation for the time you spend with your children).

 What things were most important to me before COPD?

 

 

 

 How have these things changed since my COPD?

 

 

 

 Things important to my family’s life before my COPD…

 

 

 

 How have these things changed since my COPD?

 

 

 

Take me to the next page: "Experiencing Loss" .

This page has been approved by Rachel Norwood, MD (September 2006).

Note: This information is provided to you as an educational service of National Jewish Health. It is not meant to be a substitute for consulting with your own physician.

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