Harmonica Therapy

“ When CO2 Matters Musical accompaniment Back in the early 1970's MoSup and I watched a Mike Douglas show guest  discuss emphysema, as COPD was then called. He opined that the only known "cure," or reversal was playing the harmonica. We knew someone who was on oxygen for emphysema so I told her.  She poo-pawd it; said she'd already been inundated with  phony cures. and then died.   Before I quit smoking for good in 1999,  I had peaked at three packs a day.  At $7 a carton it was not only an expensive habit, but I had already been sent home once with oxygen tanks.  The thought of hauling that around for the rest of my life scared the crap out of me.  I had a lung doctor.  She told me that the lungs were a remarkable organ—that would stretch to cover a tennis court.  Her point being that we only use a fraction of that so the trick is to find ways to get at the healthy stuff (I'm using medical lingo here, so I hope you can follow).   Gave me breathing exercises.  Soon, I was able to send the oxygen machine back, and haven't smoked so much as a candy cigarette since.  But still .... Just had blood work done prior to my cataract surgery and noticed that all my numbers were well within normal, save for CO2 ME Normal Range CO2 32 18 - 32 mmols/L I looked that up and saw that it was COPD related.  I took out a harmonica I'd purchased several years ago and started playing it.  That was two days ago.  I am not making this up.  I'm already breathing much better, and a lot of crap that was hiding in my clear sounding lungs is coming out. And watch this: *dancing a jig to the Irish cup thing* I'm just saying.  If you have a lung disease, get a harmonica.  BTW, I'm yet able to figure out how you're supposed to discriminatley blow one of those holes at a time, so I sent for Harmonica Playing for Dummies.  PS - I was utterly shocked yesterday to see a gas station advertising their cigarettes for $5/pack!  That's $50/Ctn.  HFS!  My habit of yore would be costing me  $5475 a year!  Fkn government. ”