Have you ever run out of breath trying to walk up a short flight of stairs? Or while carrying your groceries inside from your car? Or what about when you sleep? Do you always wake up tired no matter if you slept 8, 10, or 12 hours at night? If you answered yes to any of these questions, according to the medical experts, it's possible that you may have a larger-than-normal buildup of mucus inside your lungs. And that exhausted feeling you get is because your body is simply working twice or even ten times harder than usual to get a steady supply of oxygen into your blood. (Yes, even while you’re sleeping.) Because the less oxygen your body has to use… the more washed out and lifeless you can feel. Can you relate?
About 4 years ago, my mom started another little "side-project" - she started digging through an closet FULL of old family memories, trying to sort and scan all of our family photos and home videos onto her computer. With her "spare time" (which is a word I don’t think she really understands), she found a way to hook a scanner up to her computer and then proceeded to manually scan each photo - well over 1,500 of them.
I remember it like yesterday. I was out to dinner, enjoying a pleasant conversation with my mother… when suddenly, she started gasping for air. She’s a bit of a comedian, so I thought she was joking… and I even laughed a bit. But as she desperately pointed to her throat, her eyes got wider and wider. She knocked her glass over, shattering it on the table. My laughter turned to fear… then shock. As she tried to scream, I could see it in her eyes: My mom believes she’s about to die. By this point, a crowd had formed. Everyone was yelling and calling 911… but nobody knew what to do – immediately – to help my mother. I’ll never forget how helpless I felt in that moment.
