A Scots woman who was forced to give up her job and use a mobility scooter due to a chronic lung condition has called for lung health to be taken more seriously after it took doctors six years to diagnose her. Vivienne Gaynor repeatedly complained about her declining health, but her shortness of breath and recurring chest infections were put down to asthma.
The 60-year-old, from Edinburgh, was eventually diagnosed with deadly lung disease chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) after years of repeated trips to her GP. She was informed of the diagnosis in 2013 over the phone and had to google what the condition was.
Vivienne is now backing calls from campaigners for better respiratory care in Scotland after a new report revealed one in five people wait more than four years to be diagnosed with COPD, whilst one in eight waited more than a decade.
