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I’m doing my best and will continue to do my best this trip, but I’ve been a bad boy most of my life – certainly my adult life. Vacation is not the time to be sitting around nebulizing and such, eh? So far, so good on this trip, though.
I remember our annual Spring Break trips to our time share in Tennessee involved bringing my aerosol compressor, but I don’t recall having to do chest PT because back in the day, that meant Mom and Dad had to do it, and they were on vacation, too.
When I spent a week in Colorado Springs back in 2002, I’m pretty sure I only brought my inhalers… probably not the best idea, considering the altitude. I did fine, though, and that’s why I never worried about treatments for a few days. Or weeks. Or months. Until I got sick and went on IVs.
Back just after we got married, the only thing we brought was my Albuterol and Pulmozyme with my ailing eFlow that took 30 minutes to dispense the meds. I was not into that at all and probably only did 1/5 of my treatments. I also didn’t do my Vest back in the day because, well, I think the Hill-Rom vest is a piece of crap forcing you to hold down a pneumatic switch to make it run. What moron thought up that idea: an active switch for a passive treatment? /end rant
Lesson learned – the hard way
I did my nebs last night at the hotel, this morning before we left, got my AZLI in after we got to the cabin, and the full course again after dinner. I’ll bust out the Vest in the sitting area upstairs in the morning and either do it before or after we go out… depending on the state of my upper left lobe. I got Beautiful to snap a photo of me “smoking my pipe” at the breakfast bar where I set up neb camp.
I’m kicking myself for not bringing our scale with us, but that will just make that much more of a surprise when we get home if all goes well. My resting heart rate must already be down to 55 or so and I got an hour or two nap when everyone else went to the grocery store to stock up. I guess she didn’t have the heart to wake me up to go out again after two days of driving. As a side note, you can tell in the driving photo that it’s time for my new 125lb photo for the header – check out those cheeks! The site is getting a re-design to do some more of the things I do with sites if I have the time this week to do it in one sitting, so maybe that will be a part of it… you’ll have to wait to find out.
We are going to have to go back into Gatlinburg to see some of these sights instead of just snapping photos as we drove through trying to not hit a million pedestrians.
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CF Fatboy is a small business owner flourishing in Tampa, FL. He and Beautiful have been married for 5 years and are doing everything they can to ensure they have a long life together.
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