It's all good advice as I said listen to your body having been a soldier for 18 years I think I know what my body can take as sometimes you have to push that bit more but take it in gradual steps you can slowly increase what you need to do to get stronger this works in so many ways but your body will tell you when enough is enough.

i think she should go at her own pace , know one knows your body like you do ..

So very true SRStepp you know what you can do and can’t you have to listen to your body inform your doctor and work the plan you two set up. Our loved ones don’t always realize what we go through and the true effect of this disease I also encourage everyone to take their loved ones/caregivers with them to their appointments let them ask questions and hear it from the doctor not just the patient. Breathe easy

Wrong...her daughter is wrong. As a former nurse and a COPD patient that had has pneumonia.It takes steady progress but not harsh. Listen to your body and your Dr......NOT your well meaning but misinformed loved ones. Consistent and incremental progress is your best bet. Remember, we are all so different with this disease.

"Listening to your body" works only when you know your body well, and most of us don't until we're forced to pay attention. Listening to your body includes being a complete couch potato, because it's harder to get up and move than to just lie there. Likewise, when you have COPD and getting up and moving means you become short of breath, it's much easier to stay in the chair and not move when what you should be doing is getting up, using your O2 and moving. Your body has a language all its own, and you have to learn what it's really telling you. It's too easy to let your body tell you to stay put when you really should be moving. I think it's too easy to misinterpret that phrase!