Subj : Greasy Spoons
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Wed Apr 02 2025 14:02:26
Hi Dave,
DD> Things are beginning to settle down .... finally. It's sort of scary
DD> when you go to an appointment with your doctor and he says "I want
DD> you to go to the Emergency Room right now. I'll cal and let them know
DD> what's going on."
RH> That would scare me. No idea why? I would have asked what/why.
DD> I was having trouble breathing even with the portable O2 pump and
DD> didn't have enough energy to suck soda thru a straw.
That is some serious breathing issue! Good thing you were already at the
doctor's office.
DD> His prefacing comment was "Your lungs sound like pneumonia". My temp
DD> was 98.1. But even with the O2 set at 6 litres per minute my oxymeter
DD> was running only in the upper 70s.
RH> Sounds like he had good reason for you to hike yourself over to the
RH> hospital. Back in 2001 when I broke my elbow on a Saturday afternoon,
RH> the plan was to put it back together Sunday morning. My O2 level was in
DD> After the roun d of antibiotics (six hypos in 6 minutes) they fired
DD> into me I was breathjing much easier.
Any steroids mixed in with the antibiotics? After having trouble with
them about 25 years ago, I avoid them as much as possible, usually no
longer than a 10 day burst, tapering down each day.
DD> Would have been nice if he's put me "in the lop" as well. Then the
DD> E.R. told me I'd be in hospital overnight for observation. Which
DD> stretched to a week.
RH> Must have had a lot to look at. (G) Hopefully nothing major planned for
RH> the week so that the time in the hospital didn't conflict with much.
DD> At 82 I don't make long-range plans. Bv)=
But sometimes plans for even a week out can raise conflicts. I've got to
call and reschedule an appointment for me in June as Steve has one an
hour earlier--both local but don't know if he would be done before mine
was to start.
DD> to not need biopsy so no cancer (phew). But I gat a script for a new
DD> puff dragon (inhaler) in addition to the two I already have. And they
DD> dropped my diabetes meds from my daily list.
RH> Good to hear that the diabetes meds were dropped, not so good to hear
RH> about needing another inhaler. I was switched from Advair (generic)
RH> daily and albuterol as needed to Trelegy last fall, still albuterol as
RH> needed and use a nebuliser at least once a day. It took a while but I'm
DD> My main guy is Advair (2 puffs twice a day) with Albuterol as a
DD> "rescue" (two puffs as needed) And now the Atrovent (2 puffs daily) to
DD> complete the trilogy BTW - I found that Albuterol is adrenaline based
DD> which is why they don't use it as a routine thing but as a "rescue".
Getting the "jitters" from albuterol? I did, when it was a (very)
occaisional use thing, again when I restarted with the nebuliser a few
weeks ago. Now that it's routine, they've stopped.
DD> I'll see Dr. Bakir (pulmonologist) next Tuesday for a follow-up. I
DD> think he'll probably put me on nebulkiser treatments at that time.
Some how I think that actual dog's breath would be worse smelling.
Deborah used to brush Sam's teeth from time to time but I don't recall
him ever having really bad breath. OTOH, I've smelled some really bad
breath from other dogs. (G)
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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