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Month: April 2020

The Cost of Breathing

On the day we went to the E.R., he could only keep breathing by standing and bending over, rocking back and forth to manually keep his diaphragm working just enough to move oxygen into his lungs and keep his body going. Picture using your body to manually operate your lungs much like a blacksmith uses bellows to deliver oxygen to his fire. But we knew it wouldn’t be enough. He wouldn’t be able to sustain it for long.

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