Wendell is a Real Life Survivor of COPD

My name is Wendell Betts, andin February 2012

I was diagnosed with stage 4 COPD ( chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). My lungs were twenty three percent working capacity.

Eighty four to eighty eight percent of copd patients are long term smokers. I never smoked but I grew up with asthma and had many bouts of pneumonia which lead to the deterioration of my lungs over the years.

In 2002 I was living in Arizona and developed another case of pneumonia. At that time I was diagnosed with severe copd, and I was told that I would never be able to work again by the U.S. Social Security.

In August of 2012 I had a strong feeling come over me, a vision that God could do more with what was left of me than I did with the best of me.

The following May I visited my Pulmonary Dr. who told me that the next time I got sick I would most likely die. I refused to accept my diagnosis and said that I would fight this. Within 90 days I was introduced to some natural herbal products and after twenty one days I was able to come off my oxygen and over the next twenty four months my lungs being at twenty three percent capacity had increased to forty percent.

In 2016 I was invited to the NB Legislature where Hon Victor Beaudreau introduced me as the

"COPD Warrior" and the next day my story made our local Daily Gleaner.

Since then COPD Warrior is the name that I was given I wear with great pride.

In September 2019 I walked across New Brunswick from Quebec border to Sackville NB, and covered 504 kilometers for awareness for this devasting disease.

Now I work with and talk to and mentor people around the world with COPD.

Wendell Betts.