I ran across this article and thought is was interesting:
COLORADO MAN TO BE THE FIRST COPD OXYGEN PATIENT ALLOWED TO RUN IN BOSTON MARATHON!
Its about a man who is oxygen dependent, diagnosed with COPD and is the first person with COPD allowed to run the Boston Marathon. This person is on some serious O2, when asked what is prescription is he responded:
"I have been on supplement oxygen for 4 years. My current prescription is 4-6 liters at rest and 7-18 liters when I’m active or exercise."
Now that's some serious O2 he is on for exercise, just think how many tanks he might go through in a 26 mile race.
This guy has already completed 2 full marathons, 14 half marathons, 1 ten mile, a 5 mile, 4 times did the 10k the Bolder Boulder, a bunch of 5k's and climbed 2 14,000 plus foot mountains. Quite amazing. He says that he went through 5 tanks a marathon and was lucky to have friends to help with the changing of tanks when needed.
This is pretty amazing for a COPD oxygen dependent person to do and it just shows their is life after a COPD diagnosis, you just have to take care of yourself and work to acheive some added health to help cope with the problem.
To add to his accomplishments on March 10 of this year he finished the Climb Chicago event for the American Lung Association. 4 buildings; 180 floors; 360 flights; and 2340 stairs, for a time of 1:06:13. Really amazing, that would hurt me.
Well hope that article was inspiring and hopefully this guy can inspire other COPD patients in the future.
Drive on RT's.
10 comments:
You are an amazing man - and true inspiration to us all! God Bless you!
Do you have copy writer for so good articles? If so please give me contacts, because this really rocks! :)
I really like when people are expressing their opinion and thought. So I like the way you are writing
Nice fill someone in on and this fill someone in on helped me alot in my college assignement. Gratefulness you for your information.
Hi,
I keep coming to this website[url=http://www.weightrapidloss.com/lose-10-pounds-in-2-weeks-quick-weight-loss-tips].[/url]You have really contiributed very good info here respiratorytherapydriven.blogspot.com. Do you pay attention towards your health?. Are you really serious about your weight?. Research indicates that about 90% of all United States adults are either chubby or weighty[url=http://www.weightrapidloss.com/lose-10-pounds-in-2-weeks-quick-weight-loss-tips].[/url] Therefore if you're one of these citizens, you're not alone. In fact, most of us need to lose a few pounds once in a while to get sexy and perfect six pack abs. Now next question is how you can achive quick weight loss? You can easily lose with with little effort. You need to improve some of you daily habbits to achive weight loss in short span of time.
About me: I am blogger of [url=http://www.weightrapidloss.com/lose-10-pounds-in-2-weeks-quick-weight-loss-tips]Quick weight loss tips[/url]. I am also health expert who can help you lose weight quickly. If you do not want to go under hard training program than you may also try [url=http://www.weightrapidloss.com/acai-berry-for-quick-weight-loss]Acai Berry[/url] or [url=http://www.weightrapidloss.com/colon-cleanse-for-weight-loss]Colon Cleansing[/url] for effective weight loss.
Understandably your article helped me terribly much in my college assignment. Hats incorrect to you post, intention look forward in the direction of more interdependent articles in a jiffy as its anecdote of my choice topic to read.
This is profound!!! I am a former athlete, former smoker, current, COPD-er. When diagnosed I was devastated.
A couple of months later I was diagnosed with cancer on tongue. Subsequently, I had sugery and radiation therapy that ended last August.
Just celebrated first year post-surgery but my mind is/was in the wrong place and COPD is a large factor. The body follows where the mind is.
This story is the brightest beacon I have seen in some time. I pray I can learn from it. God bless him.
Hey hello guys I'm practice to participate in a marathon and this information about Oxygen Dependant COPD man to run marathon is very useful thanks for sharing!!
Hi Iam Prabhu from chennai,joined today in this forum... :)
Hi buddy, firstly I would like to send greetings to all readers then I think that this information is amazing and very entertainment information, I was looking information about Oxygen Dependant COPD man to run marathon, and this information is very professional and I would like to have any update about, thanks for sharing!!
Post a Comment