Most of you know Ross
and I have just been away on holidays with my Mum and Dad, and I took lots of
pictures, but just have had the time to post then yet, as from the time we got
home Mum has been ill, she was in hospital for a week with Viral Pneumonia, but
just didn’t seem to be getting any better, so lots of test where done and last
week they told us Mum has Emphysema.
The thing here is my
Mum has never smoked, she got it from Passive Smoking, no matter how far back
in Mum live you go, there been a smoker, from my Grandfather who smoked to the
day he died, to my Dad who gave up twenty five years ago.
But the biggest
trouble I think was Mum and Dad had a hotels, in the days when everyone smoked
inside, the bar would smell smoke, you could see it in the air, your cloths
would smell of smoke, back then, there was no fans to suck the smoke out of the
room.
Magnet was a mining
town, just about every man at that bar had a cigarette in their hand, my Dad
was one of these men, I’ve seen men and woman, sit at hotel bars and light cigarette
after cigarette and yes my Dad was one of this kind of smokers too, he always
had cigarette in his hand.
Back then we did not
know what could happen with Passive Smoking, now we do.
I’m not telling you
this to try and stop anyone from smoking, I don’t have the right to do that, I
telling it to you, so you may think about who around you, when you smoke, your
young Children and Grandchildren, can’t, just get up and leave the room. I’m
not asking anyone to stop smoking, I guess what I’m asking is for you to think
of your Children and Grandchildren, thirty years on in life, don’t let them be
where my Mum is now.
Mum is now improve
little, she still get very puffed, but doing a little more each day, she is in
the early stages of Emphysema and has been put on medication and they are
working to get her as well as she can be.
S.M. Mac Arthur ©
