Between the rules and the tools the patient and family are usually in the dark.

The nebulizer is another piece of electrical equipment with a plastic line. It has a mouth piece that delivers a metered dose of liquid medicine in a mist.. Not all nebulizers are created equally. Some work well, most do not. The cheap models do not hold up to treatments four times daily for very long before they begtin to develope problems. The biggest problem my patent had was getting the medicne delivered...

I cared for lung patients for many years. I still do. Over the years I learned things that are not usually mentioned in traditional articles, and decided this blog might be a place to share. If you've been there and done that. skip this information. If you have not, this is a good place to start.

The number one thing to remember is the dial on a concentrator is not a toy for children or the curious to fiddle with. The litre flow is dicatated by the doctor and the condition of the...

The cancer is definately in the neck and spine. Last Friday a shunt was inserted near her heart, to feed the Chemo, as the veins they used previously collapsed. My beautiful, normally cheerful baby has lost more than a hundred pounds and her hair, now snow white from drugs, will siib come out by the handful. The vomiting and diarrhea she struggles with daily because of a 'short gut' will intensify greatly - not for days, but for weeks. In time the chemicals will cause her already weakened system...

It's cold. wet and white. It's beginning to look like winter.

Two weeks ago Kris had a lump cut out of her neck. Last week the doc said it was stage 4. Yesterday she went to the oncologist who told her the surgeon made a mistake. It's stage 6.
They will try to devise a plan to keep her compfortable and maybe help.

It doesn't look good. There is not a darned thing I c an do to fix it.

I heard something today that made me sick inside.

President-elect Obama is in seclusion in Chicago where he spoke with the presidents of both Russia and Poland. Shortly thereafter CNN made the details public while hiding the identity of the mole under the mantle of "condition of anonymity". A breach, whether it is a breach of respect or a breacu tf national security, it stinks and it is no way to begin a new presidency. If I could talk to the new Chief of Staff I would...