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Personalized care gives Marie Hammes oxygen and answers

Every day, people take more than 23,000 breaths that fill their lungs with 2,000 gallons of air. It's an automatic and essential function that most people don't think about — until that breathing becomes difficult. Marie Hammes knows this feeling well. The 70-year-old West Salem, Wisconsin, resident was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, in 1996. This chronic inflammatory lung disease causes obstructed airflow from the lungs. She handled her condition without extra…