[Tupelo]

my younger brother has COPD. Former Marine. Vietnam Vet. Probably exposed to more crap there than we will ever know or imagine. Add to that fifty years of smoking and forty years in hot stinking press rooms working with unknown chemicals and breathing God only knows what vapors.
Sad to see.

[Bon of Babble]

So sad! Sorry, I know it’s a terrible way to go. The story you told about your brother’s exposure to chemicals reminded me of one my mother told me: One of her friends died of emphysema/COPD. Never smoked in her life - however HER parents owned a dry cleaning business and she grew up OVER the building.

That’s why I take dry cleaning to a business that doesn’t use whatever horrible chemical most of them use, can’t stand the smell.