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3 Dec, 6 tweets, 3 min read
1. I am not sure if this @COPDFoundation program for distributing #harmonica s and helping COPD patients learn them is still up. I wish I had read more on this last year because it could have saved my Dad a lot of suffering.

copdfoundation.org/Learn-More/I-a…
2. This is my Dad's harmonica and the beginning of my own music/memory/something else journey. I gave it to him about 25 years ago when his harp was stolen during a break in.
3. Dad had COPD and his doctor prescribed breathing physical therapy. I couldn't enforce the doctor's orders - dysfunctional family issues. He died in June 25, after a few hospitalizations with dehydration and pneumonia.
4. He kept his harp in the second drawer of his night stand. My daughter retrieved it for me.

As I had suspected, playing the harmonica is great COPD physical therapy.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32313456/
5. My Dad is gone but he left me with a wealth of thoughts and information from which I am building this new path for me. He couldn't benefit from an amazing therapeutic resource literally within his hand's reach. Maybe your Dad will.
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