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When breathing issues derail shared fitness goals and dreams

My running partner and I trained for a marathon together for months but then I developed vocal cord dysfunction that affects my breathing during exercise and now I can barely run a mile, and we're both devastated but trying to be positive for each other when really we're both grieving this shared dream.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are trying to support each other through the loss of a mutual aspiration while managing their own different forms of disappointment.

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“Where Are You with Respiratory health and breathing?”

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