{"id":147356,"date":"2025-11-19T00:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/147356\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:57:10","slug":"living-with-copd-it-often-looks-to-others-like-nothings-wrong-but-when-our-breathing-is-bad-we-tend-to-stay-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/147356\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with COPD: It often looks to others like nothing\u2019s wrong, but when our breathing is bad, we tend to stay at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWhen Joe Claffey was told he had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease he was terrified. But he learned to deal with it and, while it\u2019s incurable, he says you can live a great life with the many supports on offer. He shares his story to mark World COPD day, which falls today\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joe Claffey\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0f7032eb-cd8a-48db-b463-18b3d71a68c1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Joe Claffey<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Joe Claffey was first diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), he panicked. \u201cMy instant reaction was to think, that\u2019s it. I\u2019m going to die,\u201d says the, now, 70-year-old retired father of three, from Stoneybatter in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">That was 2020, when Claffey had been admitted to the Mater hospital suffering from pneumonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Joe Claffey was told he had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease he was terrified. But he learned to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,898,29782],"class_list":{"0":"post-147356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker","12":"tag-service-journalism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}