Cycling suddenly becomes a lot more difficult when you wear a nose pinch and have to breathe through a straw. Ex-basketball player Ann Wouters also experiences this: “Yes, that is no laughing matter. That can even be frightening.” Yet that feeling is a daily reality for many people. An estimated 800,000 people suffer from COPD, a lung disease that causes the airways to narrow.
Patients often feel like they are suffocating. Annemarie Vanwynsberge has already had surgery on her lungs. Doctors then removed three parts of her lungs and she has been doing better since then