Breathe Better, Live in Wellness: Winning Your Battle Over Shortness of Breath
Jane M. Martin, BA, CRT

You or someone you know has been diagnosed with -- or suspect they might have -- a chronic lung disease. Whatever the case, living day to day with chronic lung disease can lead to feelings of confusion, anger, loneliness and fear. There is help and hope! In Breathe Better, Live in Wellness you'll find stories of people with extraordinary and inspiring wisdom, humor, and courage, surviving and thriving in spite of shortness of breath. Helpful information, resources, and simple self-quizzes are also included.

“I highly recommend Breathe Better, Live in Wellness to anyone newly diagnosed, or any family member or friend, who needs clarity and understanding of patients with respiratory disease.”
 — Keithen Wade

“…so encouraging! Thank you for giving me hope!"
 — Ruth Malloch

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If you work with pulmonary patients in a support group or rehab setting you can order Breathe Better at a 50% discount. Call Infinity Publishing at 1-877-BUY-BOOK, ask for Michelle, and tell her you learned about the group discount on this site. When ordered from Infinity, books are sent out within 24–48 hours and shipping is always free for orders of 20 or more books. If you are unable to purchase a copy of your own, contact your local library and request that they put it on the shelf.

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100 Questions & Answers About COPD
Campion E. Quinn, M.D.

Authoritative, practical answers to your questions, including diagnosis, treatment options, how to work with your physician to improve your health and avoid hospitalizations, cautions and pre-cautions, smoking cessation, psychological issues, and much more.

The Asthma Sourcebook
– third edition –
by Francis V. Adams, M.D.

This trusted guide to living with asthma has been updated to include the full range of treatment options. Includes an expanded selection of internet resources. A must read for anyone with asthma.

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The Breathing Disorders Sourcebook
Francis V. Adams, M.D.

Shows how environmental factors often interfere with normal breathing. Explains various types of disorders including asthma, emphysema, and COPD. Each is discussed in terms of causes, symptoms, and treatments.

The Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema Handbook
Dr. Francois Haas and Dr. Sheila Sperber Haas

This book helps patients lead full and productive lives by educating them in how to actively and effectively participate in their treatment, and by offering them a unique home management program.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Mark Jenkins

This handy guide provides day-to-day support for living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Addressing both mind and body, this book combines up-to-date medical information with a spiritual program rooted in the Twelve Steps and advice on how to cope with the physical, social, and spiritual challenges associated with COPD.

Coping With COPD
Elaine Fantle Shimberg

Readers will learn how to: navigate the activities of daily living, quit smoking at any age, use oxygen therapy effectively, tailor a diet to meet new nutritional needs, work with a doctor and when to see a pulmonologist.

Courage and Information for Life with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Rick Carter, Brooke Nicotra, Jo-Von Tucker, et al

Tips and information on daily living with COPD. Chapters include a dialogue between physician and patient, frequently asked questions, you and your doctors, treatment, supplemental oxygen, smoking, sleep and sex, exercise and nutrition, surgery, and more.

Enjoying Life With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Thomas L. Petty, M.D. and Louise M. Nett

Can you enjoy life with COPD? Certainly. But you will be best equipped to live and enjoy if you understand it and its treatment. Today emphysema can be prevented, arrested, or improved, even in advanced stages. Tomorrow promises a better day for those who learn to enjoy life with COPD!

Every Breath I Take: A Guide to Living With COPD
Rick Hodder, M.D. with Susan Lightsone

Includes information for COPD patients and their families. Contains practical information on many aspects of living with this debilitating disease sprinkled with stories of real people living with COPD and still enjoying a sense of achievement.

Life and Breath : Preventing, Treating and Reversing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Dr. Neil Schachter

Written by pulmonary specialist, Dr. Neil Schachter, Life and Breath provides information on many aspects of pulmonary disease, all in the light of his years of experience and a compassionate heart for patients.

The Lung Transplantation Handbook
(formerly titled Things You Should Know About Lung Transplantation)
Karen A. Couture

Covers the entire transplantation process from beginning to end for both lung and heart-lung transplants. In easy to understand language it introduces the reader to the complex process of getting on a list, preparing for surgery, and post-surgical complications. This is a must read for transplant candidates, recipients, and family members, as well as social workers and nurse transplant coordinators.

The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
James N. Parker

Created for patients who have decided to make education and research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it also gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Shortness of Breath: A Guide to Better Living and Breathing
Andrew L. Ries

A helpful tool for educating patients about chronic lung disease, specifically chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. This user-friendly book presents a wealth of information in a style the average reader can comprehend. Covers the psychological and physiological impacts of lung disease, offering suggestions on exercise programs, relaxation techniques, travel precautions, diet, and more.

Taking Flight: Inspirational Stories of Lung Transplantation
Authored by Lung Recipients around the World, compiled by Joanne Schum

Successful lung transplant stories are rarely shared. Now you can read of these miracles and experience the courage and determination found by each recipient.

Frontline Advice for COPD Patients
Co-edited by James T. Good, Fr., MD and Thomas Petty, MD

A must-have book written for patients with COPD and their families for taking charge of COPD!

Includes information on: Normal Lungs / COPD / Smoking Cessation / Prevention and Treatment of Infections / Oxygen / Pulmonary Rehabilitation / Support Groups / Surgery/ Nutrition / Sexuality/ Osteoporosis/ Depression / End-of Life Issues

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The Good Doctor’s Guide to Colds and Flu
Neil Schachter, M.D.

From cold and flu to pneumonia and bronchitis, from tonsillitis and sinusitis to SARS; an eminent Mount Sinai lung specialist provides the latest and most effective information on treating and preventing these illnesses.

The Germ Freak's Guide to Outwitting Colds and Flu: Guerilla Tactics to Keep you Healthy at Home, at Work and in the World
Allison Janse & Charles Gerba

An easy read, combining humor and practical information. Learn where the germs hang out, how they're passed, and how to avoid them!

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Coping With Prednisone (and Other Cortisone-Related Medicines): It May Work Miracles, but How Do You Handle the Side Effects?
Eugenia Zuckerman

Helps answer questions regarding the emotional rollercoaster ride that long-term prednisone patients experience. Medicines and contraindications are explained, as well as how to live with side effects. Also appropriate for physicians and healthcare professionals who prescribe these medicines.

BreathWish
Craig Ammerall, RRT

Author Craig Ammerall shares his knowledge of lung health and his compassion for patients as he skillfully brings Bible characters to life, revealing their humanness – and God's faithfulness and forgiveness. BreathWish provides the struggling smoker with a fresh look at temptation and addiction. A quick and easy read, concluding with a daily devotional to keep quitters on track.

Adventures of a Oxy-Phile
Dr. Thomas Petty

Here’s a book with more oxygen questions and answers as well as stories about everyday people living with oxygen. Adventures of an Oxy-Phile is $5.95 new, and less for gently used.  

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Coming Soon! The Savvy Patient's Toolkit
Margo Corbett

Available soon from Infinity Publishing.

Lead Your Way to Better Healthcare: Help Doctors Help You
Margo Corbett

Proactively and effectively manage chronic conditions, medications, and hospitalizations for yourself or a loved one. Get 40 uniquely designed forms to help you lead your healthcare team, become more aware of preventable medical errors, and research, track, and make connections between symptoms, conditions, medications, and family history.

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You the Smart Patient: An Insider's Handbook for Getting the Best Treatment
Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.

Clear, easy steps on how to take control of your own health care and deal with matters that come up when facing a medical case: from choosing the right doctor, hospital, and insurance company to navigating prescription drugs, specialists, treatment options, alternative medicine, pain management, and more.

NEW! Breathe Better, Live in Wellness: Winning Your Battle Over Shortness of Breath Audio Book (abridged)
Jane M. Martin, BA, CRT
1-877-BUY-BOOK

Heidi Hayes, talented voice from stage and opera, reads Breathe Better in a comforting and reassuring way. If you are challenged by limited vision, a decreased ability to concentrate, or other reading restriction, let Heidi read to you. Also ideal for commuters and in a breathing support group setting.  

Now available for download from Audible, UK!


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$24.95
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Sit and Be Fit Exercise Video for COPD
with Mary Ann Wilson

This COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) Specialty Video Tape is especially beneficial for those with chronic breathing problems. In addition to covering breathing techniques, it also includes posture training, massage, and exercises to facilitate expansion of the chest.

It Takes Your Breath Away: A 25-Year Survivor’s Story
Brian W. Webster

This book comes in CD form that can be read on your computer screen. Told by the patient himself, an honest account of the ups and downs of living, and ultimately thriving, with COPD.

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Share The Care: How to Organize a Group to Care for Someone Who Is Seriously Ill
Cappy Capossela and Sheila Warnock
foreword by Sukie Miller, PhD

Bargain price – $4.99

Friends and family of the ill want to help, but often they don't know how. In this book you’ll learn how to organize a group that can share the care, helping prevent the burn out that can so often occur. This book will get you on the right path to making a difficult time much more manageable – and even rewarding – by addressing both the emotional and logistical aspects of life with a chronic, serious illness. Also includes forms to stay organized and communicate with the rest of the team.

Beyond Casseroles: 505 Ways to Encourage a Chronically Ill Friend
Lisa J. Copen

This little book, small enough to put in your pocket or purse, is brimming with top-notch ways to encourage people whether they have chronic headaches, migraine disease, or another chronic illness. Beyond Casseroles is clever, helpful, fun, and uplifting.

Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope
Richard Cohen

Cohen, who has Multiple Sclerosis and is a cancer survivor, profiles five people who cope with chronic illness. Through extensive interviews, as well as his own personal experience, he explores the world of living with a chronic illness. In a style that is graceful, conversational, and flowing the author paints fascinating stories we all should hear, stories not of victory – but of hope.

The Chronic Illness Experience
Cheri Register

Though seldom visible, chronic illness remains a constant presence in the consciousness of those who live with it. Based on the author's experience with Caroli's disease and interviews with people who live with a variety of chronic diseases, this book reveals how people faced with chronic illness can achieve meaningful lives. As her book eloquently demonstrates, happiness and fulfillment are not the exclusive preserves of the healthy.

A Grace Disguised
Jerry Sittser

A Grace Disguised offers a compassionate, deeply affirming message of hope, richness in living, and joy not after the darkness, but even in the midst of it. Now in softcover.

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The Anatomy of Hope
Jerome Groopman, M.D.

What role does hope play in life with a life-threatening disease? Dr. Jerome Groopman explores this subject in story form. Surprising and inspiring.
Random House; 1st edition (December 23, 2003).

Healing Through Empathy
Francis V. Adams, M.D.

Dr. Adams illustrates the vital importance of the doctor-patient relationship through seven of his patients’ histories and describes how empathy can educate a physician. Allows the reader to see into the mind of one physician as he seeks the best outcome for his patients.

One More Day: Daily Meditations for People with Chronic Illness
Sefra Kobrin Pitzele

Meditations providing valuable assistance in strengthening resolve and healing hurts, both psychological and physical.

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The Furrtails
Shandi Finnessey

This charming story teaches children that in spite differences and challenges, each person has a unique gift to give.

Gertrude the Albino Frog and her Friend Rupert the Turtle
Marcia A. Silvermetz

In a tale about fitting in and acceptance, Gertrude the Albino Frog learns that good friends come in all shapes and sizes. This book encourages readers to appreciate the ups and downs of friendship and to value each other with diversity and tolerance.

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For more just fun reads and/or unique books you won’t find everywhere, go to Infinity Authors, Infinite Talent.

Forty Cars that Owned Me by Patrick J. Nowak

Forty cars and the guy who had to have them. Race cars capable of 175 mph, a 1953 Nash with factory-installed queen bed, Jaguars, an Aston Martin DB-5, pro rally cars, Cadillacs, Lincolns, Chevys, and Ford Mustangs. Pat Nowak had two addictions. He beat one of them. Great cars, great people, great stories, happy endings.

Thank You Power: Making the Science of Gratitude Work for You
Deborah Norville

Television journalist, Deborah Norville reminds us of the power — and importance — of gratitude in our lives with an easy-to-read style and inspiring stories.

Attitudes of Gratitude: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life
M.J. Ryan

Gratitude for small things enriches us beyond measure. This collection of essays helps teach us how to give and receive joy every day of our lives, and inspires us to deepen our sense of thankfulness and support it in other people.

Appalachia: Spirit Triumphant
Betty Dotson-Lewis

A life-long resident of the hills of West Virginia, the author chronicles stories of many different aspects of Appalachian history through the voices of its people. Gritty and honest, she reports on corruption, poverty, politics, Black Lung Disease and health care – as well as the beauty of the region and the deep heart and soul of its people.

An Enchanting Journey
Joseph M. Callewaert

With Joe as your guide, escape into the French countryside to discover the radiance of Puy de Dome transformed by the rosy flush of sunset, the radiant stained glass windows of the Bourges cathedral, and shiver at the profile of the haunted hill in Babracte.  Marvel as he shares true stories of historic figures as they walked the paths we walk today.

A Romanesque Journey
Joseph M. Callewaert

Join the author through a land of cathedrals and castles touched with the witchery of rock, forest, and rivers. Discover mysterious valleys, a fairy-tale bridge, prehistoric paintings hidden deep in caverns, and more.

The World According to Mr. Rogers: Important Things to Remember
Fred Rogers

A timeless collection of wisdom on love, friendship, respect, individuality and honesty from the man who has been a friend and neighbor to generations of Americans.

A Year By the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman
Joan Anderson

The story of how one woman’s journey of self-discovery gave her the courage to persevere in re-creating her life.

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Discoveries: A Journey Through Life
Shirley Ann Parker

"Discoveries: A Journey Through Life" reveals 17 engaging short stories about the joys, humor and exasperations of family and friendships. From the "everyday" world around us to magical realism, these stories are positive and uplifting for the grownups in your life. They weave a colorful tapestry of the world that is happening all around us."

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