Join us for an exciting autumn full of support for our community members and new guests!  This is about YOU!

This Month's Meeting:

Date: November 14, 2011

Time: 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

Location: Bosher Auditorium
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Speaker: Dr. Daniel E. Bechard, Pulmonologist, Veterans Affairs Hospital, Richmond, VA

Topic:  ACID REFLUX and its Relationship to LUNG DISEASE

Refreshments courtesy of LinCare

Handicap accessible, ADA Compliant

Bosher Auditorium
Chippenham Medical Center
7101 Jahnke Road
Richmond, VA 23225

Mark Your Calendar for DECEMBER!

You're Invited!

IPF Summit 2011:
From Bench to Bedside

LIVE STREAMING MEETING BROADCAST FROM CHICAGO

YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND OUR LOCAL VIEWING EVENT

Dec 3, 2011 | 9 AM to 4 PM Richmond

Free parking beside the hospital, ADA compliant, Bosher Auditorium is on the 1st floor next to the aquarium.

Breath Matters will be providing Continental breakfast, morning, and afternoon break snacks, and a lunch with drinks.

Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation's IPF Summit

Read the message from Jennifer Bulandr
Director, Community Affairs, Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation

Benefits of Joining A Support Group

With an illness like Lung Disease, often a feeling of hopelessness and loss of control becomes the norm. With a support group, participants are able to regain that sense of control and exercise authority toward management of their situation.

Support groups can be instrumental in improving psychological motivation. By simply getting "out of the house" and joining with other people with an understanding of the problems being faced, a positive attitude can be nurtured and improved.

WHO CAN JOIN

Any individual that is lung affected can become a member. However, recognizing that it is not only the individual with the lung disease that needs support we encourage the caregivers or “care partners” and other family to join and attend the meetings. Learning and receiving support together helps to equalize the disease experience for all who are involved.

Resource links

1. Alpha-1 Foundation
2. American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI)
3. American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
4. COPD Foundation
5. COPD.org
6. Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation
7. Drive 4 COPD
8. National Home Oxygen Patients Association
9. The LAM Foundation - Lymphangiomyomatosis - research and support
10. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
11. National Jewish Medical and Research Center
12. National Emphysema COPD Association NECA
13. Pulmonary Hypertension Association
14. Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation
15. The Pulmonary Paper
16. Society of Thoracic Surgeons
17. Surgeon General's Tobacco Cessation Guideline
18. Sarcoidosis Resources
19. www.ipftoday.com
20. www.coalitionforpf.org
21. www.huff-n-puff.net
22. www.ipfnet.org
23. www.ASCENDTrial.com
24. www.thoraic.org PDF
25. Pulmonary Fibrosis Friends Yahoo Group

More links being organized, if you have suggestions of good, quality information sources, please send it to us.

HELP US!

Do you know of a currently operating pulmonary support group? We are compiling a list for this website: if you know of one, let us know. Thanks.