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Interview LC28  

Interview LC28

Age at Interview: 58
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 55
Background: Fire-fighter (retired), divorced, 2 children.
Brief outline:Diagnosed with lung cancer in 2000, followed by pneumonectomy (right lung removed) in April 2000.


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Physiotherapy, including cycling, swimming, and deep breathing exercises helped him increase his lung capacity.

 



What sort of exercises do they suggest?

Some of the exercises were swimming, some of the exercises were in a sauna, like a sauna type pool, which is quite warm water which does help, which did help me with my frozen shoulder. I even did some cycling on static on a static bicycle and I did a lot of exercises using elastic, would you believe? It's a special type of elastic that you do actually moving your arms and your shoulders and also deep breathing exercises which is quite important.

Would you like to show us how you do deep breathing?

Most of my deep breathing I actually, I try and take in a deep breath, as deep as I can and hold it for as long as I can then breathe out very slowly. I try and do this, I still do this to this day, as soon as I get up in the morning before I even do anything I do some deep breathing exercises just on the edge of my bed. Get myself dressed and I come downstairs, I usually make myself a bit of breakfast and then I do some deep breathing exercises then as well. I think it's quite important to try and, you need to use what lung you have got left to its maximum capacity. Most people, even with two lungs you don't use both lungs to their full capacity, you probably only use you know fifty percent of your lung capacity, you know in normal every day living.  So when you've had this operation you need to expand your one good lung and try and compensate a little bit.

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