Just lost an internet friend today

[Kams Cats]

The Lady who got me interested in E-cigarettes. She passed away this morning. Deb was older and a heavy smoker most of her life. She developed COPD and had to have oxygen. Still she smoked. Then she got a vaporking e-cig and was able to quit. She vaped 24 mg and sometimes 36 mg. She knew it was high but felt it was the only thing keeping her away from the cigarettes. Considering nothing else worked I couldn't say much. She loved the facebook groups for vapors and before long she graduated to a Darwin. She loved Gourmet vapor too.

This fall she started having a lot of problems. Her lungs were more or less gone. Bouts of pneumonia. She needed surgery for colon cancer but they couldn't get her lungs healthy enough to withstand the surgery. She passed away this morning.

She encouraged me all the way to stop smoking now so I would not end up like her. She loved and embraced vaping and encouraged others to try it.

I wonder sometimes if the higher nic was too much for her damaged lungs. If vaping with a Darwin might have been too much. I wonder if the brand of juice she used contributed to the damage this fall. Since everything with BE came to light I have thought about her in the hospital and then to hear of her death I can't help wondering. At the same time I know she was in very bad shape before she started vaping and it most likely was not a contributing factor. Still I am left with doubts.

 

[Switched]

Sorry for the lost of your mentor, my condolences. I like the stance you are taking wrt her previous health habits as a mitigating factor has developments of late are ambiguous at best. I am not saying to dismiss them but rather don't dwell on them as I believe they are not connected.

 

[Huffelpuff]

Our thoughts and prayers go out to your friend's family and to you. So sorry to hear you lost a friend. So wonderful that she was able to count you as a friend during her time here.

 

[CaminoDiablo]

I'm sorry to hear of your loss. It's a hard time deal and understand what happened. As far as I know, talking to doctors, the nicotine only acts like caffeine and just effects the heart as in constricts the artery's and the heart works harder. As for the lungs I have never heard nicotine effect the lungs, just the other 3,999 chemicals in the cigarette. Again I'm sorry and she at least knows you have carried on what she wanted you to do, not smoke.

 

[emanguba]

That makes me wonder if it was too late for the change to vaping?

 

[Kams Cats]

That makes me wonder if it was too late for the change to vaping?

Yes it was too late for her. Not to late for me and others she encouraged. She always wanted us to quit so we wouldn't end up like her. Her encouragement and success with them is what made me decide to get an e-cig.

 

[Bloogmiester]

My heart felt condolences to you. RIP Deb

 

[maureengill]

So sorry to hear about your friend....the only thing that will heal the wound is time....I have a sad song for you...just remember that she'll always be a piece of you....

Staind - "Something To Remind You" *NEW, FULL SONG 2011* - YouTube

 

[kanadiankat]

What a beautiful song. Thanks for sharing that. Losing people we care about is so hard.

Sorry to both of you for your loss. Be well, be healed.

 

[Kams Cats]

Thank you. That was a nice song

 

[NoizMaker]

I am so sorry to hear of your loss I am sending good vibes your way Kams

 

[sam.8]

Very sorry to hear. Perhaps if vaping was around years earlier the outcome may have been different. Sorry for your loss.

 

[MegaBee]

Sorry to hear about your loss. She sounds like an amazing brave lady. She probably saved your life too <3


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[zer0ith]

Loosing anyone you have a connection to always sucks. Sorry for your loss

 

[Anaconda]

I'm terribly sorry to hear about your loss. I think her courage to try something as young and essentially unproven, the E-Cig, is a game changer to many. Although she's passed on from all of the years of being a smoker, her determination to get off of them, has impacted many around her. Her story is one that will make many other smokers think twice, and maybe give this "new age / fangled" e-cig a try, and will save many lives before it's too late.

I am sad to know she lost the fight, but I'm sure she is smiling knowing you are thinking of her now, and sharing her story with us. Thank you.

 

[lunabella]

So sorry to hear of the loss of your friend, Kams. She's breathing easy and dancing on those giant clouds of vapour in the sky now, in a place where cartos never clog and batteries never die. Smile when you think of her, always. Hugs!

 

[Kams Cats]

Thank you everyone. I smile remembering how much fun she had vaping. She loved new flavours and each week had a different favourite.

 

[rachelcoffe]

*hugs Kams*

 

[cactusgirl]

Kams, so sorry to hear of your loss. ((((Hugs))))