Jim

Birth Date
3/31/1952

Gender
Male

Heritage
Dutch

Nationality
American

Alpha type
lung

Alpha gene
ZZ

Last FEV1
48%

Diagnosed
2004

Treatment
Aralast, breathing machine, oxygen

Siblings
2

Children
5

Grandchildren
7

Great Grandchildren
1

Jim Dudley

redtruck962001@yahoo.com

I live in the Missouri Ozarks.

I am retired from the Heating & Air industry.

My favorite color depends on what I'm looking at.

My favorite movies are Cool Hand Luke or The Shootist.

My favorite music is anything but Rap, although I play Country.

My favorite pastime is motorsickles, guitars, huntin, fishin, & breathin.

I have a beagle named Spunky and a bulldog named Ruffus.

My favorite quote "The battle is won in the mind before the first blow is thrown."

1/12/2007 Bare with me as I one finger this! Came home from work one day and fell on the floor. It took them three hours to bring me back around, said I almost died. The doctor at the hospital, Dr Gram, ran some test and found I had Alpha-1. I had never heard of it, but when they explained it as you all know, it took my breath away and its been gone ever since. It's been a couple years now and my breathing keeps getting worse. I don't know how to respond to my friends and family anymore when they ask that question, "How are you today??" "Pretty good if I could breath" is my latest. I hate being a whine bag and I don't want to be pitied. They can't understand I'm in a different world now, a world of fear and peace. Kinda like the old Indian that wanted to go lay on their stick bed high in the sky. Now I'm not saying I want to die, I'm to stubborn for that and what about this house I saved for all my life to build, or my Harley motorsickle? The line for whose gonna ride it after I'm gone is gettin longer every day, like buzzards in the sky!! Where do we go from here? What do we do now? Guess we just keep on keepin on till the Good Lord takes from us that last breath. For all things there is a time, at least those of us who has been cursed with this alpha one bug has this website to chat and ponder on. I don't spend as much money as I used to. I used to go to Sears monthly to buy the latest Craftsman tools but now I haven't bought any in years. It's bad enough their gettin my motosickle, I aint buyin em no more tools!! I hope this ole hillbilly has made you my brothers and sisters of this alpha club smile or at least grinned. If you'd like to email me Ill get back to you. Remember that the secret to life is joy !!!

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