COPD is a mutation of the lungs... sometimes a medical person will say asthma, but they are two different issues. And the funny thing about it -if it can be called funny at all- is that nobody ever mentioned it as a possible result of smoking, nor was I even told what it was when I was diagnosed with it however many years ago that was. Just, you have COPD. I did not know what it was/the effects of it and how it reduced lung function until not very long ago. And we all know we dodged many other bullets as it were, with all the other drugs we consumed. I was hospitalized a number of times, overdoses, smoke inhalation (that's another story), alcohol poisoning. What good really would knowing there were other dire consequences from smoking? They say COPD is reversible in the early stages, so if your dad starts experiencing any increased difficulty breathing, it would be prudent for him to quit then, if not sooner. Is he a believer? That could make it much easier for him. Smoking is such a terrible addiction.
I know of at least one other person who weaned themselves off psych meds with the help of properly managing their diet. He would say his real problem was alcohol, and for him there may have certainly been a lot of truth in that, though he has decades of sobriety now, and we acknowledge that the drugs and alcohol were merely symptoms of a larger underlying spiritual condition. He was one of the people who used to come to my first 12 step fellowship back in the late eighties. I would say he was instrumental in me deciding to attend the AA fellowship as well, because the clarity of his message was above and beyond the norm. I attended AA for a number of years just to listen, before crying out to God for help, the God I did not believe in, I must add... not to quit mind and mood altering substances, nope, I liked those. Just for the pain to stop. I lost the desire to use within days and began attending NA as well, and CoDa also. NA was home for many years but it is AA I still atend after all this time.
Yes, each day is a new beginning, and we have so much to be grateful for! I went through a lot of my songs last night and picked the thumbnail that displays for them, choosing for each one where it was an option the "Thank You Lord Jesus" I end all my songs with.
That is very clever to genre order your songs by account name. Heh. How many do you have? Well, my YT shows i have 46 videos, but a number of them are dupes (with 9 [?] set to private) from when I took the originals made with audioship stills and turned them into something more to my liking. One song I did three videos for lol, one was a still floral image, one was made with one of my Scripture panels with the lyrics added, and the third a video I got from the clipchamp program, not realizing I'd already redone it. One of the private ones I simply redid with a new song version, my Testimony song (I wrote that poem four years ago for a thread here). The first vid for that song I generated an ai singer who disturbingly grew a phantom third arm a couple of times and did other weird things LOL, plus I decided I liked another version of the same song better, from my second generating site. I did try out other ai singers as well in tests, but decided not to go that route again. They make terrible lip syncers LOL. I had already used an ai generated guy to "sing" one of my song compositions. I found him soewhat amusing the way he gesticualted, and sighed when just standing there, looking lost like he was questioning his own existence.
