Many COPD Patients Struggle To Pay For Each Breath
“After a lifetime of smoking, Juanita Milton needs help breathing. She’s tethered to an oxygen tank 24/7 and uses two drug inhalers a day, including Spiriva, which she calls ‘the really expensive one.’ ‘If I can’t afford it, I won’t take it,’ Milton says. The 67-year-old’s chest was heaving one recent morning from the effort of walking down the hallway into the kitchen. Her voice was constricted as she loaded medication into a device about the size of her palm.”