RT Cave listed among best COPD blogs

So I am up late, and to kill the time I'm surfing the net.  I'm looking for a book that covers the basics of COPD in order so I can stay up to date on COPD wisdom, with the ultimate goal of coming up with ideas to write for healthcentral.com and this site.

As I'm doing this I come across a slide show called 14 Best COPD Blogs. I decide to flip through the show to see if there are COPD blogs that might be of interest, when I come to #10 on the list, which is Respiratory Therapy Cave.

This is what they said about the Cave:

Being diagnosed with COPD doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the humorous side of life. Respiratory Therapy Cave was created with the mission to cause you to lose your breath—from laughing too hard. The blog provides accurate information about respiratory therapy and related topics with unrivaled wit.

Topics include inhalers, mesothelioma, and the understated consequences of smoking. And each day carries a specific theme. For example, Mondays are dedicated to answering community questions on respiratory therapy.

That's a pretty good endorsement, and one I wasn't expecting.  So, in return for the favor, I'm providing the link above, and here, to Healthline.com.

By the way, they have featured my blog before as one of the best asthma blogs. So I'm taking this as a nice compliment, and an honor.

Study: Exercise can help you live longer

COPD News of the Day provided a link to an interesting article about how important it is for the aging to stay active.  She blogged that:

Individuals older than 75 who were physically active and participated in social activities lived a median 5.4 years (95% CI 3 to 7.8) longer than those with a less healthy lifestyle and more limited social life, according to Laura Fratiglioni, MD, PhD, and colleagues from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

And even those who were 85 and older lived an extra 4 years (95% CI 0.8 to 7.2) if they remained active, the researchers reported online in BMJ.

read this article from MedPage Today - click here

 This is just another example of useful information we can obtain by following fellow bloggers.

The best Asthma, COPD blogs & websites

The following are all the asthma, COPD, and other chronic lunger blogs and websites on the web that I am aware of, and in no particular order. Keep in mind that theese blogs are written by folks like you and me living with lung diseases, or family members caring for people like us.

Most of the websites were likewise created by folks like you and me with the intent of providing you with information and communities to broaden your wisdom and share your experience.
Here's the list:

Asthma blogs:

1. Breathin Stephen
2. The asthma mom
3. Hold your breath to breathe
4. I inhale steroids
5. Life with these lungs
6. wrong end of stethescope
7. Coughs & sneezes
8. Wheezytux
9. Asthma advocate
10. Angry asthma mom
11. Brittle asthma
12. Catching our breath
13. Life with brittle asthma
14. Not all right half left
15. Asthma Girl
16. All roads

COPD blogs:

1. Roxlyn Cole/ /COPD
2. COPD NEWS
3. Spit Happens
4. A chronic dose
5. Rare lung mom
6. Miculka Madness

Other blogs:

1. Beyond Allergy
2. Please Don't Pass the Nuts

Other useful websites:

1. Quit smoking kit
2. AAAAI - American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology
3. Asthma Guidelines (National Heart and Lung Institute)
4. COPDliving.com
5. huff-n-puff.net/newforum (interstitial lung disease support)
6. Living with COPD.org
7. notallrighthalfleft.blogspot.com (asthma blogger)
8. Spit Happens
9. COPD Pulmonary Rehab
10. love your lungs, breathe for life (COPD community)
11. About.com COPD (COPD blogger)
12. Stemcellpioneers (stem cell treatments for lung diseases)
13. Breathing better living well (COPD, chronic disease resource and community)
14. AnxietyConnection.com (Sure, chronic illness can lead to anxiety)
15. Lung care cure community (lung disease community and resource)
16. Stop smoking connection/COPD (Source for all your COPD wisdom)
17. My allergy network (Source for all your allergy wisdom, community)
18. My asthma central (Source for all your asthma wisdom, community)
19. COPD-alert.com (COPD community and great resource, community)
20. healthsquare.com (Great place to learn about any drug on the market)
21. breathing magazine
22. Daily Med: Info about meds
23. COPD Support
24. Guide to quitting smoking
25. How to recognize asthma
26. Allergies and asthma
27. What is asthma
28. Allergy notes
29. Healthtalk/ asthma
30. COPD support
31. What is COPD
32. American Lung Association (all the basic information you need)
33. Guide to albuterol
34. National Jewish (the asthma hospital, great information about asthma/COPD)
35. CPAP, Sleep Apnea, snoring
36. Arthur – Lesson Plans – Buster’s Breathless
37. Asthma Action Plan (Asthma.ca)
38. Asthma in Schools
39. Asthma Society of Canada
40. Battle for the Bronchs
41. Canadian Lung Association
42. Recognizing the Severity of Asthma Attacks
43. Teen Asthma by the Children’s Asthma Education Centre
44. TeenAsthma.ca
45. The Children’s Asthma Education Centre

If I'm missing your blog, or a website you think deserves to be on this list, please leave a note in the comments below and I will it. This is your time to self advertise, or to market your favorite sites.