to take a certain amount of time to recover. This generally takes two months but can drag out up to half a year or more. Patients have to be patient! It takes time for the lungs to...

able to use our time for therapy. For the first time in my life I didn’t have to get up an hour-and-a-half earlier than the rest of the family to take care of my therapy before the...

develop after the operation. After the operation I did inhalation therapy with a device for about half a year. Then I was able to stop the inhalation therapy because I have learnt...

Professional athletes are especially susceptible. Their immune system is stretched to the limit. More than half of the athletes who visited a doctor during the 2014 Olympic Games...

had the feeling of having a constricted ribcage when inhaling for at least another one to one-and-a-half hears. I think it is a safe assumption that exercise helped me overcome...

Over the long term though this request meant that I, a sick person, was regularly getting one-and-a-half to two hours less sleep a night than she, a healthy person, was. But as a...

unaided. This was something the Viennese patient had to learn again with the help of others. After half a year he managed to walk from his apartment to the bus stop. And nowadays...

includes nebuliser therapy for CF that has to be done two or three times a day and can take up to half an hour each time. In addition to inhaling saline solution and, in some...

antibiotics as an inhalation therapy at home. I haven’t had to go to hospital for the last one and a half years, especially thanks to a new drug called Kaftrio, which really helps...

walks through the Prater park in Vienna – always accompanied by family or friends at first. It took half a year until I could go for a walk on my own and could manage to get to the...