Smokers, Drinkers and the like

[emilywood7]

Originally Posted by Tooleman

Trying to figure out what hacking and coughing has anything to do with smoking..

If they had a cold or something yeah, but from smoking? uh....... what..

I agree with you bc she doesn't know what she's talking about. She is lumping all smokers into the same bunch with the ones who have lung cancer, COPD or emphysema... She doesn't understand the difference. She's just saying her EMS people were "hacking and coughing" and of course it was bc they were smokers and they were affecting her and her quality of life.

[van]

Originally Posted by melmax

. I have a hard taking advice about my weight if a over weight doctor is telling me what I need to be doing.

Soooooooooo..... If a paramedic was a smoker, you'd have a hard time having them save your life, because they smoke?

[JJFrisco]

I always requests the christian non-smoking ambulances

[laughingmommy]

Wow! 6 pages of lots of stones being thrown, but some really good and interesting points and some really gut busting laughs. Thank you FOL for my morning coffee break topics.

BTW I was a smoker for many years, but quit a while back- so glad I did. I was also fat; I'm not anymore- I loved myself both ways, but am happier now, mostly because I feel healthy. I try not to let appearences form my opinions and I generally think most people are that way. As far as everyone else who judges, I don't want to be their friends anyway.

[lholton2]

Originally Posted by Tooleman

Trying to figure out what hacking and coughing has anything to do with smoking..

If they had a cold or something yeah, but from smoking? uh....... what..

Really? You've never seen a heavy smoker that has a smokers hack?

[hockeymom]

Toolie: Regarding the coughing/hacking...let me introduce you to my mom & step-sister....it's getting to the point where I can hardly have a conversation w/ my step-sister b/c she hacks & spews so much. She's a year younger than me. It's their life & they can do what they want with it but it really makes me sad.

[lholton2]

When my mom was bedridden with teminal emphysema I had to pound on her back for hours, between me & the nurse that came so as to keep the pleghm broke up so she could breathe. Long PAINFUL death not being able to breathe, you lose your dignity, can't control your bowels, all becaus she had a strong heart that wouldn't give up.

[thetexan57]

da[quote=lholton2;4702718]When my mom was bedridden with teminal emphysema I had to pound on her back for hours, between me & the nurse that came so as to keep the pleghm broke up so she could breathe. Long PAINFUL death not being able to breathe, you lose your dignity, can't control your bowels, all because she had a strong heart that wouldn't give up.[


Sorry.

[emilywood7]

Originally Posted by lholton2

When my mom was bedridden with teminal emphysema I had to pound on her back for hours, between me & the nurse that came so as to keep the pleghm broke up so she could breathe. Long PAINFUL death not being able to breathe, you lose your dignity, can't control your bowels, all becaus she had a strong heart that wouldn't give up.

I am very sorry for that. I repeat though, I do not smoke around others(even in a smoking place/bar whatever) i understand the consequences and i am well aware of the risks and inevitability of smoking... But I do not appreciate others judging so freely. I understand if you have a relative that has been through the sicknesses that smoking causes but I also know that in America, it's free will and I am allowed to do so. I hate it too. I hate how it smells but I have a really hard habit to break and I work of breaking it daily. Wish me luck.