The Road We Travel!

When you have a long term progressive illness like Pulmonary hypertension and COPD people think that the road we travel is basically straight down and we just get steadily worse I don`t find that to be the case.
I have had theses illnesses now for about three years and I get long periods where I don`t feel too bad and then suddenly things   get worse and I really struggle for a while but when I get through that I tend to pick up and then things are not to bad again.
I think there is a tendancy to think when you get a bad turn that its all downhill from here and things are never going to be as good as they were but although I suppose we get worse over time the difference is so slight and gradual that you don`t really notice it.
The thing to always remember I think is that the road we travel may be rougth at times but its not all down hill and there are good and happy times to be had along the way and the road is a succession of hills not a steep cliff!!.
These things are never as clear cut and  straightforward as we are lead to believe that is why many of us tend to live for far more many years than the doctors expect us to.