Lillian says her GP was on it!
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When I was ending the chemotherapy, I started to have an asthma cough, and I had had that asthma cough on and off. So I call my GP and got puffers. And she said, “Are you having any trouble lying down? Like is it waking you up at night?” And I said, “Oh yeah, like, I wake up and I have to sit up to catch my breath.” And she’s like, “Oh.” “But then I tried the puffer and it seemed to help, but the trouble breathing line down had gotten worse before I heard about that I have heart failure. So I had these signs and my GP was on it.
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