(UNEDITED)This is in response to Mr. Hill's letter Sept. 5. I assume from your remarks Mr. Hill that you are a smoker. So was my brother. He passed away Nov. of last year. I was the one that took him to the Dr. He told him he had never seen lungs as bad as his in any one still alive.
He gave him 18 months to live. He lived 6. This was after 3-4 years on oxygen and hundreds of Dr. appointments. I was at the hospital when a Dr. described what he had done to his lungs and the crap that was in them.
I waited in the emergency room when he punctured his lung from coughing. Tubs were put in his chest to try and re-inflate his lung. It wasn't working so they poured glue threw the tub to plug up the hole. I sat there for over an hour listening to him scream in pain.
They needed a bigger tube to they transferred him to another hospital.
When they finally decided to remove the tubes, the one the glue went through wouldn't come out. It took 3 people to hold him down. He screamed for another hour in pain.
Yes, Mr. Hill maybe we should take the smokers out and shoot them. It would be a lot kinder than what my brother went through.
Karen Waldron
West Point
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