Subj : Breathing
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Fri Feb 28 2025 14:24:41
Hi Dave,
DD> similar product then he gargles. When I hear him sounding like Dame
DD> Nellie Melba tuning up for an operatic role I know he's taken pne of
DD> his two daily doses.
RH> But you know he's using it. When I had that stomach flu virus earlier
RH> this month, I didn't take any of my usual meds for a couple of days.
RH> Didn't really eat much either, just pushed liquids.
DD> When I went for my hospital stay follow-up doctor visit I got a peek
DD> at my actual record - not just the part I see on the "Follow My
DD> Healty" web site. I thought I had COPD and emphysema. According to my
DD> records I have to change that tune to COPD and chronic brinchitis.
DD> Neither of which I'd wish on anyone - not even Donald Trump.
Bronchiactasis? Been there, have that. Yesterday the doctor put me on
albuterol thru the nebulizer twice a day with a saline chaser. Also got
some antibiotics to clear up some lingering crud.
DD> 8<----- HACK ----->8
DD> the BiPap has me on a six-foot leash. Bv)=
RH> Just don't toss and turn too much, getting wound up in it. (G) I've a
RH> long hose for the concentrator (We keep it in the hallway to cut down
RH> on bedroom noise.) so it is run over the top of the doorway, around the
RH> back of a dresser and over to the bed. Still enough tubing I could (if
RH> we had the space) move the machine elsewhere.
DD> I pretty much stay planted when I sleep. If I'm flopping around like a
DD> catfish on the bank I'm not asleep ... just hoping.
I've noticed that I don't always stay in place--and yes, I'm tossing and
turning until I get to sleep. Some nights worse than others.
DD> I'd go under the door as that would work better in my situation.
RH> Each set up is unique to the situation. I'd really have some adjusting
RH> to do if I were tethered to it 24/7--today I cut out another shirt for
RH> Santa. That would have been a lot more difficult on a full time tether.
DD> My concentrator sits in the center of the place between my bedroom and
DD> my confuser room. And with enough scope of hose to reach anywhere in
DD> the house.
I think our house is a bit bigger and probably a different layout. Got
to work with what you have. (G)
DD> Here's a flounder thing I learned to make at Robert's Fish Market
DD> cooking demo/classes.
RH> It does look good. Back when we were first married, one of the local
RH> (Swansboro, NC) seafood restaurants did a crab stuffed shrimp. It was
RH> one of their pricier menu items so we didn't get it very often--but it
RH> was good--and well worth the price. That restaurant, as well as several
RH> others in the area, no longer exist, sad because they were so good.
DD> Done in by Covid? We lost several places to the "no inside dining"
DD> part of preventing spread of Covid. One, the best pizza joing anywhere
DD> around here went to drive-up/delivery only. And never came back from
DD> that. The owner of Charlie Parker's (which I have mentioed here a few
No, it was gone long before Covid hit. We visited the area in 2007
(while stationed in Savannah) and it was gone then. Probably one of the
hurricanes in the late 80s or 90s took it out or did enough damage that
it wasn't worth the bother to get it up and running again.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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