tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227057989423791065.post2634771231501089195..comments2024-03-22T01:54:26.421-07:00Comments on Swankie Lives: Hypoallergenic Vandwellers–subgroup forming.SwankieWheelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458128398214149848noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227057989423791065.post-41678922381722959742017-05-31T12:02:33.852-07:002017-05-31T12:02:33.852-07:00Well, as it turns out, I may not be allergic at al...Well, as it turns out, I may not be allergic at all. I might not even have COPD. In March 2017, I learned I had a lesion in my right lung, close to where the airway first enters the lung. It is called Carcinoid Syndrome. The thing was the size of a kidney bean and blocking air flow into my entire right lung. So anytime I was around any allergins that might give me an inflammatory response in my airways, suddenly, the swelling would make the airway so tight, no air at all could go through. It was removed, it was benign. No cancer showed up anywhere in my body. Since then... now two months, I have been breathing better than I have for years, I can walk farther with ease. How many doctors have looked at me and not found this thing. I had a broncoscopy in 2008, they didn't see it. Nine years later... they find it. I am a happy camper. Time spent in home of people with animals has not given me the symptoms I got in the past.SwankieWheelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01458128398214149848noreply@blogger.com