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...
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...
the CFTR modulator therapy, my therapy times have halved from three hours a day down to one and a half hours. Inhalation therapy with antibiotics is no longer part of my long-term...
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...
fears. Exercising helps me cope with this a lot. When I exercise all out, afterward things don’t seem half as bad. Talking is good, but talking too much is bad. You should do...
out your arms first to the left, then to the right, and then lower your arms as you breathe out at half the speed. Caution: This exercise may make you feel dizzy. Photo: Phil Simha...
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...
primary ciliary dyskinesia, and I have to blow it. But I know that I can run five kilometres in under half an hour despite my PCD. I am especially pleased that I am in better shape...
60 and 68%. As a young adult I once almost touched on 80%. At that time I did about an hour and a half of sport a day, six days a week – karate and swimming. So far, my personal...
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...
