{"id":21696,"date":"2026-03-11T11:37:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/her-son-helped-her-learn-to-cope-with-copd\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:12:42","slug":"her-son-helped-her-learn-to-cope-with-copd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/coping-with-illness\/her-son-helped-her-learn-to-cope-with-copd\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Son Helped Her Learn to Cope with COPD"},"content":{"rendered":"

My husband, Jim, added another pill to the pile of meds on the kitchen counter. Ever since my release from the hospital two days earlier, he\u2019d kept careful track of which ones I needed to take and when. It was overwhelming, everything I would need to do to recover. And most of it was on me. It\u2019s not as if Jim or anyone else could breathe for me. This is hopeless, <\/em>I thought. I\u2019m never going to be able to do this.<\/em><\/p>\n

Just then, my youngest son, Jeremey, walked into our apartment. \u201cWhat did the doctor say?\u201d he asked. Jim had taken me to a follow-up pulmonologist appointment earlier that morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wants me to go to pulmonary rehabilitation,\u201d I said, trying to sound more positive than I felt. \u201cIt meets two or three times a week about managing COPD, learning to monitor and better control breathing, managing stress and exercising. It sounds great, but with your dad out of work, we just can\u2019t afford it. I asked him if I could do it on my own.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019d started smoking<\/a> when I was 16. I loved everything about it: the nicotine rush, the taste, the feel of a cigarette between my fingers, how smoking kept me slim and especially how social it was, hanging out with other smokers. My parents smoked; so did nearly everyone I knew back then. Jim included. I quit smoking while I was pregnant with each of our four kids, but I always picked it up again afterward.<\/p>\n

I started having breathing difficulties, frequent colds, lung infections. No big deal, I told myself. At 41, I was hospitalized with pneumonia. That\u2019s when a doctor told me I had COPD<\/a>, an incurable, chronic lung disease. I\u2019d shrugged that off too. Until both my parents died from COPD-related causes. Even so, it took me another six years before I was able to quit for good. By then I was landing in the hospital regularly.<\/p>\n

I figured I was headed down the same path as my parents. Nothing I could do to stop it. I hated thinking I wouldn\u2019t be there for the kids and grandkids. But God hadn\u2019t saved my parents. I couldn\u2019t imagine him working some miracle for me.<\/p>\n

The spring of 2013, I started coughing all the time. I would come home from my job as a night manager at Denny\u2019s, my head swimming from lack of oxygen. One night, I felt so weak I begged God to get me back to our apartment safely. I figured I\u2019d be okay after a few hours with my nebulizer. But the next morning, I collapsed. I was in the hospital a week. The doctors told Jim I wasn\u2019t going to make it, but I\u2019d pulled through\u2014barely. At 58, I felt more like 88.<\/p>\n

The pulmonologist\u2019s words from this morning rang in my ears. \u201cThis is serious. You need to be in a treatment program. Immediately.\u201d I\u2019d meant what I said about doing a program on my own. But I had no idea where to begin. Just walking across a room made me feel as if the wind had been knocked out of me.<\/p>\n

There in the kitchen, my son looked at me, his eyes pleading. \u201cLet me help you,\u201d Jeremey said. \u201cTomorrow before you leave for your shift, we\u2019ll go down to the fitness room.\u201d Our apartment complex had a fitness room, where Jeremey worked out. I was proud of him, especially how he and his siblings had quit smoking, but he couldn\u2019t understand what I was going through.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe in a few days,\u201d I said. \u201cI have to get my strength back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll go slow, Mom,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ll be with you every step of the way. You can\u2019t put this off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just getting to the fitness room, I had to stop several times to catch my breath. I felt the sweat trickling down my face.<\/p>\n

Finally we got there. \u201cLet\u2019s try the treadmill,\u201d Jeremey said. Couldn\u2019t we just call it a day?<\/p>\n

I stepped on the machine gingerly, and Jeremey adjusted it to its lowest speed. \u201cYou\u2019ve got this, Mom,\u201d Jeremey said.<\/p>\n

Within seconds, I was gasping for air, gripping the bars on either side for dear life, my feet straddling the belt. \u201cI can\u2019t do this,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s okay,\u201d Jeremey said. \u201cTake as many breaks as you need to.\u201d He was so patient, so eager to help. I didn\u2019t want to let him down. This time, I made it an entire minute before stopping. Finally, after I\u2019d walked a total of 10 minutes, with plenty of breaks, he let me stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was great,\u201d Jeremey said. \u201cI want you to work up to an hour of exercise a day.\u201d An hour? Was he nuts? My lungs burned. Maybe if I were younger. There were limits to what someone with COPD could do.<\/p>\n

Jeremey never let me miss a workout. At the end of the first week, I\u2019d gone 12 minutes before I even realized it. \u201cYou rock, Mom!\u201d Jeremey said. Every few days, I made it another minute. To 15, 20. At the end of the first month, I was walking 30 minutes a day. I was still taking breaks but far fewer than when I\u2019d started. Jeremey walked on a treadmill beside me.<\/p>\n

Every session felt like an eternity. But I looked forward to spending time with Jeremey, having something to share, that thing I\u2019d always liked about smoking. The rest of my family cheered me on: Jim, my other children, even my oldest granddaughter, Ashlee.<\/p>\n

In two months, I was up to an hour on the treadmill. Amazing! Jeremey was as pumped as I was. I said a prayer of thanks that he wasn\u2019t pushing me to do more. My breathing was easier, and I had more energy than I\u2019d had in years, but it wasn\u2019t as if I were an athlete or anything.<\/p>\n

I still had bad days\u2014days when I felt winded, when I strained for each breath. I\u2019d been able to get off some medications, but I still depended on steroids. The side effects sometimes made it impossible to sleep.<\/p>\n

One night, I was in the living room, well past midnight, watching television when Jeremey got home from his job at a window manufacturing company. Jim had gotten hired there too.<\/p>\n

Jeremey sat down next to me. A commercial came on for a local charity race, a 5K.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou and I should do that!\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not much longer than what you\u2019re already walking.\u201d<\/p>\n

I stared at him. \u201cNo way,\u201d I said. Walking<\/a> on a flat treadmill was one thing, but going up and down hills? I\u2019d be in the way of the actual runners. Jeremey\u2019s encouragement could take me only so far.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing this, Mom,\u201d Jeremey said. There was the same determination he\u2019d had from the beginning. I took as deep a breath as I could manage.<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay,\u201d I said to him. \u201cAs long as you\u2019re there to carry me when I can\u2019t go any further.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Jeremey, I trained for months, starting with walking around the block and then graduating to hills. With the slightest incline, I was bent over, catching my breath. When it got too tough, Jeremey supported my hips and literally pushed me to the top of the hills. Slowly, I felt myself getting stronger. My confidence grew.<\/p>\n

The time I spent exercising with Jeremey was the best part of my day. I started wearing a pulse oximeter, a fingertip blood oxygen saturation monitor, so I could see when my oxygen level was getting low and rest before I was out of air, managing my breathing, as I would have been taught in pulmonary rehab.<\/p>\n

Race day. A year ago, I had nearly died. Now Jeremey and I were standing amid a throng of people, all eager to take on this challenge. Except me. I took some comfort in spying a few other nervous faces. My whole family, including my grandkids, had come to watch.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember, this was your idea,\u201d I muttered to Jeremey.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I can do it,\u201d he said. I thought he was joking, but he was doubled over. \u201cI\u2019ve got a stomach bug or something. I\u2019m really sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s okay,\u201d I said. \u201cI guess it just wasn\u2019t meant to be.\u201d I did my best not to look disappointed. Behind me I heard a voice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll do it with you, G\u2019mama,\u201d said Ashlee, my 19-year-old granddaughter. I hesitated. I hadn\u2019t trained with her. She didn\u2019t know my pace. What if I had problems?<\/p>\n

\u201cG\u2019mama, we are <\/em>doing this together,\u201d she said. Jeremey wasn\u2019t the only one who wouldn\u2019t take no for an answer.<\/p>\n

The starting gun sounded, and I felt a surge of adrenaline. One step at a time, <\/em>I told myself. I thought about the past year, that scary night driving home from work, begging God to help me breathe. I was here because of him<\/a>. He\u2019d given me the best coach and trainer I could\u2019ve asked for in Jeremey. A whole family of cheerleaders. God had always wanted me to be healthy. I just needed to want it too, enough to do something about it. I took a bigger step. Then another, my pace quickening.<\/p>\n

Ashlee was wonderful. She sensed when I was tiring and when I needed to push myself. We crossed the finish line in less than an hour\u201457 minutes to be exact. Less time than I walked on the treadmill.<\/p>\n

My family rushed to me and gave me a group hug. \u201cI\u2019m so proud of you, Mom,\u201d Jeremey said. I knew it had been a team effort\u2014Team Norris. I sure liked the sound of that. My legs ached. My breathing was ragged. But I felt great inside.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next race,\u201d I told Jeremey, \u201cwe\u2019re doing together.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was six years ago. Since then, Jeremey and I have completed seven 5Ks and two obstacle courses. I\u2019m taking up yoga and doing calisthenics every day. COPD is chronic and incurable but not untreatable. In fact, I feel more alive than ever.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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