Doctor Visit Update

Monday I had a doctor appointment which went well. The doctors made some changes to help protect CF patients during their visit. For example, I was required to wear a mask to keep germs from going or coming out (if I were to be "sick"). The docs also wore thin cover gowns and gloves when they were visiting with me in the exam rooms. I understand the gloves, but the gowns I'm not really sure about... I appreciated the mask a lot.

My PFTs were good and about like they were at the last visit. With harvest season going on, I have extra gunk, if you will, in my lungs so that's why I think the score wasn't a little higher. I've been doing some extra curricular activities the last couple months which involve dancing and singing so that has really helped keep me active.  I've still been doing my VEST treatment and Pulmozyme nebulizer daily too. They also took a few gallons, I mean, tubes of my blood in order to review my vitamin levels and such.  It's been a while since that has been done so here's hoping for a much higher Vit D level than what it has been in the past! Maybe this will be a first in YEARS that my level is actually in normal range! My BP was "calm" and my Oxygen was about 98%. My weight was...wait a minute...not going there.  ha-ha

It's so wonderful to have something fun to do that helps keep you distracted from the other "stuff" in life for a while. The dancing and singing I'm doing makes me very happy even though my body sometimes is a bit sore afterwards.  It's all worth it!

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Must Be Harvest Time...

This last month has been a whirlwind! I’ve been super busy with lots of things. And now that the weather is changing and harvesting is happening, I am feeling it.  My left ear clogs up during harvest and planting seasons for some reason.  Fortunately, it doesn’t hurt, I just can hear well! Last night I went to bed at 8:20pm. The weather radio went off sometime in the night regarding possible flooding issues, but I just threw a pillow over my face and went back to sleep.  Coughing is happening a lot too. My throat muscles even feel tight like I have a “lump in my throat”. I’m hoping I’ll feel better over the weekend. 

I have a doctor appointment coming up soon so we will see what they say. If I’m not feeling better by Monday, I guess I’ll call them and see if I can get meds. Yuck! That stuff makes me feel worse sometimes and I can’t eat dairy with it. I like me some dairy…. :)

Please pray for me to get better and to keep a positive attitude. Feeling sick year round and then having it get worse for weeks/months at a time is exhausting. Anyone who suffers from an unending ailment can relate. Sickness is hard for a “healthier” person to deal with, but it’s even harder on me to keep going to work and keeping up with everyday activities/duties. I labor at breathing more and I usually just don’t feel well.  Making time for breathing treatments, medicines, vitamins and exercise is important and sometimes hard to fit it all in with everyday life.

Anyway, thank you for reading and thanks for prayers. Send me a message anytime from my blog page or email me directly if you have my email. I love hearing from you. I will hopefully update again soon.

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek the answers that cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." - Rainer Maria Rilke