My name is Caroline Gainer and I am addicted to the POC. In this case POC refers to Portable Oxygen Concentrator.

Everyone is addicted to oxygen. It is the element that is necessary for us to burn the food that we eat as fuel to get energy

to maintain life. It supports that process that we call respiration which is much more than just breathing in and breathing out. Respiration is the process by which we take in oxygen and burn sugar in the cells and give off carbon dioxide as a waste product. The carbon dioxide is the main gas given off when we exhale.

Those of us with COPD are obstructed from fully exhaling the carbon dioxide. This causes us to become short of breath because it is the level of carbon dioxide in our lungs and not oxygen that drives the need to inhale.

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